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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.
Signs That Transportation Bill Is Moving In the Wrong Direction
Unless progressives amp up the pressure over the next few weeks, we're highly likely to end up with a bill that not only doesn't meet all of our needs but covers its cost in horrendous ways.
Lighting a Legal Fuse
Climate action is finally gaining ground in Washington. No, not that Washington. Following their victory in a Seattle court, eight children are pressing Washington State’s Department of Ecology to crack down on carbon pollution.
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary, Bernie Tout Donor Bases Hillary Clinton leads in women donors. W. Post: "The $47.5 million Hillary Rodham Clinton raised during her first two and half months as a presidential candidate this year was boosted by a predominantly female donor base, her campaign...
The GOP Sugar Daddies of 2016
When Republicans finally choose their nominee for president, he or she will be already bought and paid, for by one or more of the GOP sugar daddies of the 2016 election.
Obama's Criminal Justice Reform Push Must Come With Economic Justice
President Obama today becomes the first sitting president to visit a federal prison as part of his push this week for criminal justice reform. There needs to be a parallel push to address economic injustice.
Smashing the Austerity Idols
What European leaders don’t understand — nor do Republicans — is that in hard times, you can’t cut your way to prosperity. But when times are hard you need government to provide economic stimulus to grow your way to prosperity.
