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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.
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary Rolls Out Student Debt Plan Hillary Clinton announces $350B plan to reduce student debt. Politico: "Clinton’s overall $350 billion budget for the proposal breaks down like this: More than half of the total would be spent on the grants for state and colleges....
Change Must Come
The Republican debate debacle combined with a positive jobs report has put Democrats into a celebratory mood. But the reality is that we haven't even begun the reforms we need to make this economy work for working people.
Here's Why Republicans Are Dooming Themselves With Millennial Voters
GOP candidates have occasionally used the right buzzwords – inequality, opportunity, middle class – but they are dramatically failing to give the true explanation about how our economy ended up the way it is.
Four Percent Growth Can Be Done, But Not Jeb's Way
Jeb Bush says he can bring the economy up to 4 percent annual growth. The White House responds that 4 percent growth is not achievable. The Progressive Caucus shows it is, but not the way Bush plans to do it.
Wingnut Week In Review: Is Bill Clinton “The Donald Whisperer”?
News of former president Bill Clinton’s private phone calls to Donald Trump pin the weeks before the billionaire launched his presidential bid raised several eyebrows in Washington. It could cause wingnut heads to explode.
