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Workers In The Sharing Economy Need Shared Security
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has proposed a way for workers in the "gig economy" to have such benefits as a living wage, health insurance, paid vacations and sick leave, and retirement savings.
How Goldman Sachs Profited from the Greek Debt Crisis
The Greek debt crisis offers another illustration of Wall Street’s powers of persuasion and predation, although the Street is missing from most accounts. The crisis was exacerbated years ago by a deal with Goldman Sachs.
Progressive Breakfast
Call To End Gerrymandering Hedrick Smith calls for grassroots movement to end gerrymandering: "...take heart – and take a cue – from the recent Supreme Court decision that casts a shadow on partisan gerrymandering ... the high Court declared that rank-and-file voters...
Republicans Can't Win Without Solving Their 'Secular Problem'
Republicans have a bigger demographic challenge looming over them that winning over the Latino vote, one of which they are less cognizant and of which the solutions are less obvious.
This Gov. Walker Gets It Right On Medicaid (But It's Not Scott)
Alaska’s governor Bill Walker unilaterally moved to accept federal funds for a Medicaid expansion, extending affordable health care to 42,000 state residents over Republican objections.
Wingnut Week In Review: The Sting
This week, wingnuts attacked Planned Parenthood, with deceptively edited video that would make James O’Keefe proud, got "trumped" again by Donald Trump, and freaked out over the Iran anti-nuke deal.
Unions Are One Answer To Making The Economy Work For The 99 Percent
A Netroots Nations panel takes apart the right-wing argument that unions kill jobs. In fact, they create jobs and strengthen the entire economy. Symbolic but important lines are being drawn to boost union power.
Republicans On Track To Lose The Latino Vote, And The Election, Again
While the ideological makeup of the Latino electorate is ever-so-slightly more liberal than the nation as a whole, the partisan breakdown is more than 3-to-1 Democratic: 58 percent Democratic versus 16 percent Republican.
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary Fleshes Out Details Hillary pushes profit-sharing in NH town hall. NYT: "The 'rising incomes, sharing profits' tax credit Mrs. Clinton is proposing would give companies a two-year tax credit equivalent to 15 percent of profits distributed to employees, to be...
Student Loan Debt Will Be A Huge 2016 Campaign Issue
At Netroots Nation, a panel explores how to make our $1.2 trillion mountain of student loan debt a top political issue, and how to turn the 43 million people with student loan debt into a political movement.
