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Moral Mondays And Walking Mayor Come to DC Moral Mondays and “Walking Mayor” Come to Washington for Medicaid Expansion and Support for Rural Healthcare. Save Our Hospital: "Expanding Medicaid saves lives. When the North Carolina state legislature denied the Medicaid...
Keith Ellison and the Worker-Led Wage Wave [Video]
The real story about income inequality is what progressive activists are doing about it, says the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The latest wave of action will confront "wage theft."
Corporations Leaving U.S. and "Economic Patriotism"
Their headquarters, executives, operations, employees, customers and everything else stay here. They still use our courts and roads, etc. The only thing that changes is the taxes they pay.
A Dangerous Idea: The Progressive Vision Of American Exceptionalism
American exceptionalism sounds conservative. But you know what? For more than 200 years, American exceptionalism was a radical-democratic idea. And we should not forget it. Indeed, we should redeem it.
A Step Forward in the Battle Against Corporate Inversions
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing this week, the committee chairman and a panel of witnesses were united in supporting immediate action to combat "inversions," an increasingly used tax-avoidance tactic.
Wingnut Week In Review: Hey, You Got Your Plane Crash In My Benghazi!
Right-wing reaction to issues in the news this week brought to mind a classic commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but with a wingnut spin on the famous line: “Hey, you got your plane crash in my Benghazi!”
Education ‘Reform’ Loses The Netroots
For those whose white-hot enthusiasm for presidential politics may be dampened by the inevitability of a Hillary Clinton candidacy, there may be no more promising alternative channel than the raging fight for public education.
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Ryan's Poverty Plan Panned Bob Greenstein, of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says Paul Ryan's poverty plan would increase poverty and shrink poverty programs: "A centerpiece of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new poverty plan would consolidate...
The Achilles' Heel Of Paul Ryan's Latest Antipoverty Program
The aims of Rep. Paul Ryan's latest antipoverty vision sound noble. But the core of his proposal has a fundamental flaw: Block grants to states have proven ill-suited to the task of reducing poverty.
The Rise of the Bankster Landlord
One of the most startling trends to come out of the wreckage of the 2007-2008 financial crisis is the explosion of Wall Street firms buying up and renting out property all across the country. This is insane -- it’s a recipe for disaster.
