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Transportation Crisis: Republicans Looking for Hostages, Not Solutions
A stalled effort to get a transportation funding bill through a Senate committee is the latest sign that congressional Republicans won't stop playing the zero-sum austerity game.
Anti-Fast Track/TPP Rallies And Events Next Week
At parades, picnics and farmers markets during the 4th of July recess, people will make the case against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the "fast track" process, and ask members of Congress where they stand.
Will Anyone Stop Charter School Corruption?
Recent reports from several states reveal a cavalcade of charter school corruption. Yet lawmakers around the country are proposing and enacting new policies to feed more children into the charter chain pipeline.
Progressive Breakfast
Economy Hurting Dem Base Weak income growth seen hurting Dems in November. Bloomberg: "The sluggish improvement in living standards among Democrats’ core voters threatens to hurt the party’s candidates in this year’s congressional elections ... Democratic...
Should We Let The Tea Party Kill The Export-Import Bank?
It is “crony capitalism” only if it is benefiting cronies. It is corporate welfare only if it helps corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The Export-Import Bank helps businesses and workers.
Hillary's Hard Choice
Despite the recent gaffes, Hillary Clinton is the odds-on favorite for president. But to avoid a failed presidency, she'll have to choose to break from the policies of her former boss and her husband.
Brown: No Tax Giveaway To Fund Roads, Yes To Treating Workers Right
Sen. Sherrod Brown rejects a repatriation tax holiday and instead proposes a different short-term solution for the Highway Trust Fund that would have long-term benefits for workers.
Meet the Guy Stealing Your Retirement Savings Right Under Your Nose
Right now, all across the country, the savings of blameless, hard-working people are being nibbled away without their knowledge by unscrupulous actors. And there doesn’t seem to be anything that can be done about it.
Sorry Tea Party. Mississippi Proves People Like Government Spending.
Mississippi, one of the most conservative states in the nation, has shown us why the right-wing Tea Party is incapable of winning. Because at the end of the day, most people want their government to do the things that they pay it to do.
Progressive Breakfast
Tea Party Loses Mississippi Showdown Black voters beat Tea Party in MS GOP senate runoff. W. Post's Chris Cillizza: "...runoff turnout in the 24 counties with a black population of 50 percent or more was up almost 40 percent from the primary. In all other counties,...
