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Liberal House Members State Bottom-Line Demands For Trade Pact Vote
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being negotiated right now. Members of Congress held a press conference to explain what it must include before it can be approved.
Enormous, Humongous May Trade Deficit Follows Continuing Pattern
Ask your local candidates for Congress if they understand what a trade deficit is, how large it is, how it affects jobs and the economy and what they intend to do about it.
Democratic Party's Divide On Education Policy Gets Worse
The Democratic Party’s divergence from progressive values for governing our schools mostly went unnoticed in major media outlets until recently. Now clear divides within the party compel candidates and their supporters to choose sides
How Much Wealth Are Our Wealthiest Hiding?
More than enough, the latest statistical evidence suggests, to warrant a full-fledged federal search. A new banking law in effect this month could start that search in the right direction.
Progressive Breakfast
WH Moves On Child Immigrant Influx Mixed reception for Obama's $3.7B proposal to address child immigrant influx. The Hill: "Senate Democrats on Tuesday moved to quickly pass a $3.7 billion package that provides funding to care for but also more quickly deport the...
The Emerging Democratic Debate
Democrats, we're told, are united whereas Republicans are tearing each other apart. But beneath the apparent consensus, a fundamental argument is brewing between the Wall Street and the Warren wing of the party.
Companies That Evade Federal Taxes Still Get Federal Contracts
Ingersoll-Rand, which changed its corporate address to Bermuda to avoid American corporate taxes, is one of at least a dozen such companies that together get more than $1 billion in federal contract dollars annually.
Will China Discussions Push For Democracy?
Discussions between the US and China take place this week, while US companies run ads opposing democracy in Hong Kong.
Fast Food CEO Says Minimum Wage Hike Kills Jobs. Not in 13 States.
Fast food CEO Andy Puzder says that raising the minimum wage will harm workers and kill job growth. A new study of the 13 states that have tried it says otherwise.
Americans Mourn Loss of Economic Independence
The decision of the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court last week in the Harris v. Quinn case is another example of the one percent’s unrelenting erosion of the 99 percent’s economic independence.
