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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.
A 'Moral Monday' Protest Against School Funding Inequity in New York
A protest featuring Rev. William Barber coincided with a report by the Alliance for Quality Education that said that educational inequality had grown to record-setting levels under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The People's Team: Why Progressives Should Back The Green Bay Packers
Knowing my enthusiasm for the Green Bay Packers, a friend emailed me following yesterday's win to say: "It's always nice when a collectively-owned team beats one owned by a greedy mega-capitalist, who's beloved by Chris Christie."
Let’s Be Clear: It’s The “Republican Congress”
Democrats suffered a shellacking in part because voters didn’t know who to blame for the dysfunctional do-nothing 113th Congress. Progressives now have the opportunity and duty to make clear who’s at fault.
Progressive Breakfast
Populism Roils Both Parties Both parties, strategizing for 2016, recognize populist wave. W. Post: "Presidential hopefuls in both parties agree on at least one thing: Economic mobility, and the feeling of many Americans that they are being shut out from the nation’s...
