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Is Jeb's Social Security Flub The Worst Bush Gaffe Yet?
The former Florida governor has been running on a platform that includes cutting Social Security benefits, so he’s been talking about raising the retirement age. But he doesn't even know what the retirement age is.
Payday Lenders Say CFPB Rule Would Hurt Their Business. That’s Progress.
The truth is that payday lenders trap their customers in a vicious cycle of debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureauhas begun writing a series of new rules to prevent the worst abuses of the industry.
House Should Separate Trade And Non-Trade Parts Of TPP
One side says the Trans-Pacific Partnership is entirely about lowering tariffs, the other says it's about corporate power. The House should require separate votes on the trade and non-trade parts of the agreement.
Republican Governor Raises Taxes To Fund Education. Not a Typo.
National Republicans are not interested in promoting what Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval just accomplished: a huge boost for public education funded by the largest tax increase in state history.
Progressive Breakfast
Reclaim The American Dream Hedrick Smith explains how grassroots victories can break the Washington gridlock: " The progressive vision of the states as 'laboratories for policy' should be enormously inviting to local movements and grassroots citizen activists ... In a...
All Hands On Deck: House Fast Track Vote Expected This Week
This is not a drill. The vote in the House of Representatives on fast track, preapproving the Trans-Pacific Partnership before the public finds out what is in it, could take place this week.
Wingnut Week In Review: GOP Clown Car Follies Rolls Along
As of this week, the race for the GOP presidential nomination has eight official candidates, and no front runner. But it has plenty of gaffes, and promises more to come.
Trade Deficit At Root Of Negative Economic Growth Report
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that the gross domestic product (GDP) fell at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015. Our enormous, humongous trade deficit is literally draining our economy.
High Debts, Low Wages Are Still What Await Too Many College Graduates
Research associates at the Economic Policy Institute this week detailed how a steep recession and the anemic recovery that followed have left college graduates with the worst job prospects in 70 years.
What Conservatives Don't Understand About Fox News
Republicans seem to let their guard down on Fox -- assuming that the anchors and the audience will be forgiving and giving ill-thought out answers to obvious questions.
