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It's Not Your Boss' Business!
The National Women's Law Center is asking you to: Tell Congress to support the Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act and protect birth control access for all women, no matter where they work.
A New Game Plan for Taking Down Privatizers
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Turns Up Heat On Highway Trust Fund President's week will focus on saving highway trust fund. McClatchy: "Congress this week will consider a way to avoid a lapse in funding of the Highway Trust Fund ... the White House said Obama 'will continue to urge...
Build a 21st Century Economy? GOP Stalls Even the Highway Bill.
Conservatives have blocked every significant plan for investing in jobs and growth since the stimulus. Their program – conservative austerity – has so damaged the recovery it deserves to be called what it is: economic sabotage.
Wingnut Week in Review: The GOP's Borderline Personality Disorder
Ugly Americans ran amok as right-wingers showed off their patriotism by screaming at children, and Republicans promised to block the president's efforts to stem a border crisis that fires up the basest elements of the GOP's wingnut base.
America’s Response to Child Refugees on the Border Is Downright Shameful
Those seething with so much rage and xenophobia that they’d hurl ugly epithets in the faces of children fleeing bloody violence in Central America bring shame to the whole nation. But the response of mainstream America hasn’t been much better. The media’s...
Boehner Wants An Immigration Reform That Trusts Obama To Enforce The Law
Boehner's proposed solution to the influx of unaccompanied Central American immigrants renders inoperative his excuses for not passing comprehensive immigration reform.
Progressive Breakfast
WH Hit From Left and Right On Border Crisis Obama spars with Republicans over spending ask. McClathcy: "Several Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee chastised the administration for reacting late to the border situation and expressed skepticism that...
Citigroup's $7 Billion Fraud Deal: The Clique's Still Clicking in D.C.
This deal with Citigroup is being trumpeted as a major win for the American people. It’s not. The money’s not enough, the wrong people are paying, and there will be no prosecutions.
Is Walgreens Trying To Leave The U.S.?
Walgreens receives a quarter of its revenue from health care programs funded by U.S. taxpayers, but is considering renouncing its U.S. "citizenship" to avoid paying taxes for the U.S. services it uses and customers it gets.
