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This Sneak Proposal On Trade Numbers Would Mask Reality
Should an iPhone made in China and sold in England be counted as a U.S.-made manufacturing export? If a proposal to change the way our trade deficit is measured sneaks through, this is exactly what will happen.
Private Equity, It's Not Your Image That's The Problem
If the private equity industry wants to be seen as a force for good, it's going to have to stop engaging in the kind of financial engineering that weakens companies but still assures a handsome payday for a few owners.
Progressive Breakfast
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.
Progressive Breakfast
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...
