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Immigrant Groups Warn Fast Track/TPP Could Cause More Migration North
NAFTA and CAFTA caused tremendous loss of farming jobs, creating massive displacement of farmers into the U.S. TPP could displace an estimated 1.2 million more workers in these countries, resulting in more migration northward.
Progressive Breakfast
Conservative Riders Mark Bill To Keep Government Open Wall Street reform weakened in final spending bill: "The deal was announced late yesterday after Democrats accepted Republican demands to undo some regulations including the banking provision, a big victory for...
Wall Street Moves In For The Kill
Wall Street isn't just trying to get another friend into a powerful position and win back taxpayer guarantees. It wants to make its own agenda seem inevitable. It wants to crush an incipient populist resistance.
Urgent: Tell Congress To Not Reopen The Wall Street Casino
The Wall Street caucus in Congress is trying to slip a major attack on hard-won financial reforms into a spending bill designed to keep the government running. We're asking people to sign an emergency petition.
Time For a Democratic Tea Party?
Can the populist wing of the party expand its influence over the business-friendly wing, and will congressional Democrats will use their leverage to scuttle any White House-blessed bipartisan deals in 2015?
Moocher CEOs
CEOs somehow are not derided as moochers, even though their million-dollar pay packages are propped up by tax breaks. It is CEOs, not the working poor, who deserve public scorn for their dependence on government handouts.
The "Ferguson Story" Is America's Story
Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly assured us that the “Ferguson story” would be over in a week. That was before a grand jury declined to indict an NYPD officer for killing Eric Garner, and a Cleveland, OH cop killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
The Flacks for Plutocrats Need a New Analogy
A rising tide lifts all boats? New research and another dose of on-the-ground reality are shredding what little credibility the rationalizers of inequality have left.
Progressive Breakfast
Hiccup In Talks To Keep Government Open Bill to keep government open delayed. The Hill: "[The bill] won't be released Monday night and will instead be unveiled Tuesday. This could complicate the House and Senate's efforts to end the lame-duck session this week ... The...
Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage
The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership will have profound effects on our ability to make a living as a country. Yet you have to read about it in the Japan Times because few-to-no U.S. media outlets are covering it.
