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Why Is SEC Refusing To Follow The Law And Issue CEO Pay-Ratio Rules?
What is the reason for the delay/refusal? Are the people at the SEC simply “playing ball,” hoping for lucrative corporate rewards when they leave government?
How Corporations Run Congress: A Talk With Ryan Grim
The Citizens United decision was dependent on an assurance that it would not lead to even the appearance of corruption. The findings of two Huffington Post reporters challenge that assertion.
Why Does Jeb Bush Keep Touting His Failures?
Jeb Bush is developing an odd habit of breezily touting parts of his record that don't look good up close. We've already had one President Bush who liked to say that up is down. Didn't work out too well.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Goes For Maximum Austerity Senate budget to be released today, will largely track House version. McClatchy: "...a GOP aide said the Senate proposal would resemble the House plan in three ways. Both generally would balance the budget at the end of a decade, the...
Dueling Visions: The CPC People's Budget vs. the Budget for the 1%
The Congressional Progressive Caucus released its People's Budget the day after House Republicans unveiled their proposal. The contrasts are stark and revealing. And at stake is the fight for America's future.
Immoral Choices in the House GOP Budget
Budgets, as Rev. Jim Wallis says, are moral documents. The House GOP’s budget proposal, however, makes immoral choices that will have devastating impacts on the most vulnerable Americans.
TPP Is Only Secret From You – But Trust Us, It's Good For You
Obviously the trade partners know what is in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The only people that this secrecy will prevent from knowing what is in the agreement are members of the U.S. public.
The GOP’s Big Squeeze
Wis. Gov. Scott Walker’s signing a right-to-work-for-less law, to lower private sector workers's wages, is part of a Republican pattern. They slash paychecks while cutting government services, squeezing the middle class and working poor.
Progressive Breakfast
House GOP Goes First On Budget House GOP budget sticks with radical Ryan vision. NYT: "House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil a proposed budget for 2016 that partly privatizes Medicare, turns Medicaid into block grants to the states, repeals the Affordable Care Act...
The (Not) Governing Majority Fractures Over Spending
All of these factions want the government cut back. None of them care about investing in infrastructure, science, education, health care, safety-net programs, or other ways of helping the public.
