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Congress Aims To Offer Highway Trust Fund A Chance To Die Another Day
Members of both parties in both houses have elected to reduce the debate over transportation spending to a discussion of the size and material of the Band-Aid, rather than what it would take to cure the patient.
How To Leap Frog Carbon...
The world is going solar. It’s the only option we have if we want to save the human race from a climate disaster. So, let’s start treating it like that, by investing in a secure energy future for America, and the rest of the world.
A Deluded Consensus on Discrimination
A wide majority of U.S. voters say black Americans who can’t get ahead should blame themselves for their troubles instead of racial discrimination. That’s one of the more startling findings from a recent Pew Research Center effort to bunch
What's The Matter With Kansas Now? Tax Cuts.
What’s the matter with Kansas? That's the question posed by Thomas Frank’s 2005 book and the eponymous documentary about how the state became a hotbed of extreme right-wing conservatism. So, what's the matter with Kansas now? Tax cuts.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Pushes GOP To Help Solve Child Immigrant Influx Obama calls on TX Gov. Perry to get House Republicans behind border bill. AP: "Following a meeting with Perry in Dallas Wednesday, the president suggested there was little daylight between Perry's calls for...
Building The Full Employment Movement
The rallying point is Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers' Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act: "It's past time for our government to make creating jobs and full employment a human right."
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.
