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Romney Splits The GOP Establishment. Can The Tea Party Seize The Moment?
Now that Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are poised to duke it out over donor checks and electability claims, will that provide an opening for a Tea Party presidential candidate to squeak past them?
"Why Wages Won't Rise" Robert Reich explores "Why Wages Won't Rise": "... there's reason to believe the link between falling unemployment and rising wages has been severed ... it's easier than ever for American employers to get the workers they need at low cost by...
On Tuesday, Will Obama Stand Up for Social Security?
Unexpectedly fierce Republican attacks on Social Security offer the president an opportunity to set the political tone for the next two years. During the State of the Union we'll see whether he seizes that opportunity.
Senate Democrats Propose Wealthy Pay A 30 Percent Minimum Tax
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has released a "tax fairness plan" that would ensure that people with multimillion-dollar incomes pay their fair share in taxes. Meanwhile, conservatives cling to their tax-cuts-for-corporations agenda.
The 2015 Economic State of the Union: Get Ready For The Next Debt Crisis
What I could not even have imagined in the 1990s is that EVERY four-year period from 1985 until today has seen federal and household debt soar by more than the total nominal growth in GDP.
Rep. Alan Grayson Explains Trade Deficit Harm
If people come to understand and worry about the very real trade deficit, they will demand policies that are very good for regular, working people, and "Main Street" businesses that make or do things in America.
Idea for Tackling Inequality Number 27,653: Stop Subsidizing It
Hardly a week goes by in Washington without some a conference on inequality. Most of the discussion assumes that inequality is something that happened. Inequality is something that was done.
Put Working People First
The AFL-CIO launched a campaign last week to wrench worker wages out of the muck and push them up.
Progressive Breakfast
Warren Defeats Weiss Sen. Warren wins as Antonio Weiss abandons Treasury nomination. HuffPost: "Weiss, who had initially been nominated as undersecretary for domestic finance, has instead accepted a job as a counselor to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, a post that...
Is New Democratic Tax Plan The Best Way To 'Grow Paychecks'?
Rep. Chris Van Hollen released a major tax proposal that he says is "the start of a conversation" about how to raise the incomes of working-class people. And indeed it raises some important issues to talk about.
