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The Big(gest) Thing Missing From Secretary Lew's Big Economy Speech
The biggest fixable factor affecting jobs and the economy wasn't mentioned at all in Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's speech on the economy last week: the trade deficit.
Health Care: Let's Have People over Profits Once And For All
If we truly want to have a healthcare system that works for all, than we need to go back to the days when healthcare wasn’t a cash cow for Wall Street bankers. It’s time to put people over profits once and for all.
Americans Can Do Anything – Including Protect Their Democracy
Right-wingers on the Supreme Court gave a minority – the wealthy – legal sanction to buy the government. Now, democracy-loving Americans are demanding a constitutional amendment to return governing to the majority.
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
A key keeper of the market fundamentalist flame, the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore, wants us to know that all his rich and powerful red-state pals really do care about income maldistribution.
Progressive Breakfast
WH To Act On Manufacturing Obama to use executive action to boost manufacturing. McClatchy: "...he will announce: More than 90 mayors and local leaders have committed to the ‘Mayors Maker Challenge’ to increase the number of locations and equipment available ......
'Customer Protection' For Wall Street? GOP Still Doesn't Get It
You would think that seeing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor fall off his perch would cause his fellow House Republicans to approach their handling of Wall Street interests with a new level of sobriety. Not this week.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew And The Elite View Of The Economy
The U.S. Treasury secretary gave a major speech on the economy. The discussion that followed reveals much about the disconnect between financial/political elites and the rest of us.
Supporters Vow To Keep Up The Student Loan Refinancing Fight
While 300,000 petition signatures were not enough to prevent a Senate filibuster of the student loan refinancing bill, they are inspiring supporters to continue the fight.
8 Reasons Some CEOs Make 331 Times As Much As Their Employees
Massive income inequality is not new. Yet there are still conservative myths floating around about why it is and what we can do. Here are a few of the real reasons ordinary Americans languish economically.
Unions 2.0? Trumka on Austerity, Elizabeth Warren, and Progressives
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka characterizes his vision of a progressive and populist-oriented labor coalition, not as a modern innovation, but as a return to labor’s roots.
