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"Fight 4/15": Low-Wage Workers Call Nationwide Strike April 15
This movement that started with fast-food workers in 2012 is now expanding to include a whole range of occupations, ranging from health care workers to adjunct professors, say organizers.
SEC Still Allowing Corporations To Hide Campaign Funding
Why does the SEC continue to refuse to require corporations to disclose to shareholders how much of their money they are throwing into elections?
Bad Trade
Everyone who testified at a Congressional hearing on the state of steel fingered bad trade as the culprit in the current collapse. As it is now, trade rules require Americans to forfeit a pound of flesh before trade enforcement can occur.
Progressive Breakfast
Fast-Food Worker Movement Aims High "[T]he fast-food movement’s next big wave of protests ... is now scheduled for April 15" reports NYT: "...the organizers hope[ to] turn the fast-food workers’ fight for a $15 hourly wage into a broad national movement of all...
Seattle Votes To Oppose Fast Track
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Fast Track and expressing strong concern about the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Who Wins the Money Primary?
The money primary of the 2016 presidential race is already on, even though most candidates haven't announced yet. Bush and Clinton are projected to do well, but the big winner of the money primary will be the money.
The Choice Before The Republican Party: Grow or Die
A healthy Republican primary would feature a competition of ideas to reach those presently outside the narrow Republican tent, with multiple candidates trying to better Jeb Bush's thin, if well-meaning, appeals.
The Republican Budgets CUT Infrastructure Spending
In one more of many stunning examples of failure to govern, the Republican budget proposal cuts back infrastructure funding even more.
The Indiana Law Promoting Discrimination Is a New Low
Last week, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law the so-called “Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” Now Pence is complaining that the law isn't much different from 20 others. But, unfortunately, it is.
Progressive Breakfast
Warren Expands Trade Fight Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes trade fight to the House. The Hill: "[She] met Tuesday with a group of House Democrats before administration officials were to meet with a larger of group of Democrats to discuss the investor-state dispute...
