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Republicans' Have A New Plan To Kill Government Employee Unions
Republicans have tried various tactics over the years to weaken or just get rid of unions, and that includes public employee unions. The latest scheme comes from the Senate.
Why The Lessig Campaign Is Nuts
No one will vote for a candidate with no governing experience on the basis on a single issue. And it's not true that nothing good can happen until we enact his package of election reforms.
Progressive Breakfast
China Currency Plummets China's currency devalues again. AP: "On Wednesday, the yuan dropped another 1.6 percent ... The People’s Bank of China promised Tuesday to keep the exchange rate 'basically stable,' but Wednesday’s decline prompted suggestions the yuan is...
What China's Currency Devaluation Means
China is lowering the value of its currency to boost its economic growth by supporting its exporters. China does what China does, for China. The U.S. should do what the U.S. needs to do, for the U.S.
The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie
As the ranks of Florida charter schools have swollen, the pathway out of poverty these schools were supposed to provide now looks more like a detour to exploitation and profit-making.
What Do The Republican Candidates Really Think About Climate Change?
Characterizing the Republican field is not as simple as deeming them all climate science deniers. If you look closely – and squint real hard – you'll find slight differences that can give an optimist a glimmer of hope.
Lacie Little: You’re Un-Fired
Firing workers like nurse Lacie Little for trying to form a union is illegal. But institutions do it all the time anyway because the penalties are so very paltry and the fear instilled is so very profound.
Progressive Breakfast
Bernie Rallies LA Bernie packs the Los Angeles Sports Arena. W. Post: "...Sanders’s campaign said that 27,500 people were inside and outside the venue ... 'There is no president who will fight harder to end institutional racism,' he told them. Or for a higher minimum...
Clinton Responds to Student Debt Voters – and Sanders and O’Malley
On Monday presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responded to the emerging Student Debt Voter movement with her own plan to reduce the cost of college education and reduce the burden of student debt.
Republican Candidates on the Economy: Infinite Gibberish
Republican candidates start with appropriately grandiloquent anger about the moral depravity of income inequality. But they are as adept as a bunch of monkeys when it comes to solutions.
