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The Trade Deal and U.S. Security: Don't Believe the Hype
With the economic benefits of the trade deal admittedly limited, its supporters have increasingly peddled it as an answer to the threat that China will write the rules of the Asian markets. Don't believe the hype.
Progressive Breakfast
Students Demand Debt Relief "Sen. Warren Receives 240,000 Cancel All Student Debt Signatures" reports OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: 240,000 signatures urging Washington to CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT were delivered last week to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a champion for...
After Baltimore: Soul Searching in Another America
Fifteen Baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than North Korea. North Korea! When America is asked to search its soul, which America are we talking about?
Sen. Warren Receives 240,000 Cancel All Student Debt Signatures
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Senate’s foremost advocate for lowering student debt and lowering the cost of college, received a petition signed by over 240,000 people that called on Congress to "Cancel All Student Debt."
One More Time: Marriage Doesn't Alleviate Poverty
The conservative argument that declining marriage rates contribute to high rates of poverty is a hardy perennial. Yet there are 15 million poor people in married households. Facts are stubborn things.
Wingnut Week In Review: From Baltimore To Wedding Bells
This week, conservatives were confronted with two of their worst fears: gay people getting married and black people getting angry. Then, as if things weren't bad enough, the federal government began preparations to invade Texas.
Trade Deficit = Slower Economy = Fewer Jobs = Baltimore
There is a direct relationship between our enormous, humongous and ongoing trade deficit and the lack of jobs, blight and desperation that is so visible in cities like Baltimore.
Progressive Breakfast
Bernie Transforms Dem Primary Iowans welcome Bernie Sanders to the race. Des Moines Register: "Sanders, a no-frills man of the people, will be welcome in the presidential race becaucharse he's so sincere about his ideas for making working-class Americans' lives...
The Sanders Challenge
Sen. Bernie Sanders will run a full-throated, uncompromised populist campaign for the presidency. That will test not the popularity of the populist message, but the strength of the populist movement.
'Raise The Wage' Bill Gets Support, While The Fight for $15 Continues
Several progressive organizations are lining up today in support of the Raise the Wage bill introduced by Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Robert Scott. Meanwhile, Fight for $15 activists plan their next action.
