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Promote “Fair Markets,” Not “Free Markets”
To say the words “free markets” is to perpetuate a dangerous right-wing myth. There's no such thing. So promote “fair markets,” not free markets. We must reinforce the progressive concept, not the conservative one.
North Carolina Is Our Selma
In our state, the voter suppression law has been referred to as a Voter I.D. law, giving it an air of “common sense,” as our legislators like to say. It has done so much more to disenfranchise North Carolinians than require an I.D.
Progressive Breakfast
Labor Steps Up Effort To Block Fast-Track Labor "ramping up a spring offensive" to stop fast-track. The Hill: "Hundreds of members from the various groups canvassed Capitol Hill, bringing their anti-fast-track message to more than 100 congressional offices ... The...
How Our Trade Policies Kill Jobs
If people understood the trade deficit and the harm it does, they would demand that our politicians do something to fix it. And if that happened great things would happen for working people and our economy.
Wingnut Week In Review: The Selma Edition
In what may be one of the dumbest political moves of the year so far, no Republican leaders will be going to the 50th anniversary ceremonies in Selma this weekend. Not a single one.
356,000 More Health Care Jobs, So Much For "Job-Killing" Obamacare
Republicans said Obamacare would kill jobs and ruin our health care system. But after the latest jobs report, there's no serious argument to make that Obamacare has done either.
Trade Deficit Drops To Enormous, Humongous Level In January
A continuing trade deficit literally drains our economy, jobs, wages, factories, entire industries and our ability to make a living as a country.
50 Years Later: The Long March From Selma To Ferguson
Fifty years after Selma, the Department of Justice's investigation of the police department and courts in Ferguson, Missouri, reveals the same racism that Selma marchers stood against, and the same economic consequences.
Progressive Breakfast
More Jobs, Flat Wages BLS reports 295,000 new jobs in February but meager wage gains: "... the unemployment rate edged down to 5.5 percent ... The employment-population ratio was unchanged at 59.3 percent in February but is up by 0.5 percentage point over the year ......
A Sober Look at the Good News in February Jobs Report
Jobs are up; unemployment is down. We've had five straight years of private sector jobs growth. But workers have yet to share in the rewards. The Fed should hold off stepping on the brakes.
