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The Price We Pay For Conservative Scorn Of Amtrak
An Amtrak train derails on its way through Philadelphia. A House appropriations subcommittee votes to cut federal funding for Amtrak by about 20 percent. Two dots conservatives don't want you to connect.
If I Was A Member Of Congress: Letter To President On Fast Track/TPP
What happened in the Senate shows why the corporations are fighting so hard to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership. A legislative body jumped in and interfered with corporate plans. The nerve of those people!
Progressive Breakfast
Fast Track Off Track Dems unite to filibuster fast track. W. Post: "[Sen. Ron] Wyden and more than a dozen other pro-trade Senate Democrats voted against a Republican proposal to begin consideration of [fast track.] The vote was 52-45, short of the 60 votes needed ......
The Progressive Challenge
From Bill de Blasio's Progressive Agenda to the Populist 2015 Platform to the Stiglitz Report on Rewriting the Rules, progressives are driving the policy debate in the Democratic Party. Now candidates have to respond.
Progressives Unveil Complementary Agendas To Address Inequality
At a site near the White House and at the Capitol, progressive leaders pressed agendas designed to end the era of extreme wealth concentration and replace it with economic growth built on shared prosperity.
Fast Track Train Off Rails -- For Now
Democrats in the U.S. Senate were able to successfully block the trade promotion authority "fast track" bill using a filibuster today. This is a very big setback for the pro-TPP forces, but is not a final defeat.
How Banks Did More Damage To Baltimore Than Rioters
The congressional Middle Class Prosperity Project went to Baltimore this week to examine the impact financial deregulation had on Baltimore's low-income neighborhoods.
Social Security 10 Years From Now: A Choice of Two Futures
I was asked by The Huffington Post to predict what Social Security might look like 10 years from now. That future is filled with both possibility and shadowed by danger.
Ben Carson’s 13 Craziest Beliefs
In an increasingly crowded field, Republican presidential candidates and hopefuls are struggling to stand out, but Ben Carson stands out for all the wrong reasons.
Progressive Breakfast
High Noon For Fast Track Vote Suspense thick before Senate procedural vote on fast-track today. The Hill: "...with most Democrats now demanding that all four trade bills — fast-track, TAA, a customs enforcement bill and a package of trade preferences for African...
