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Republicans Obstruct Congress, So Cities And States Raise Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage not only helps lift people out of poverty, it lowers "safety net" costs like Food Stamps, boosts local businesses and increases income and sales tax revenue.
Elizabeth Warren On Her New Book, Piketty the Disappearing Middle Class
From her work on bankruptcy laws to her role as TARP watchdog and creator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to her latest turn as U.S. senator, Elizabeth Warren has set herself firmly on the side of hard-working Americans.
High Stakes In The Senate Student Debt Fight
Inaction on Congress’ part in tackling college affordability and other issues young adults care about has led many to distance themselves from the political process altogether, with only 23 percent certain to vote this November.
Progressive Breakfast
Seattle Poised To Adopt $15 Min Wage Seattle mayor announces deal for $15 minimum wage. NYT: "...more than twice the federal minimum wage and one of the highest anywhere in the nation, through a series of complex and phased-in stages. Just as crucially, he said, the...
April Jobs Report: Bitter Sweet
The economy added an estimated 288,000 jobs last month, with the unemployment rate plummeting. But the good news is bitter sweet. The discouraged outnumber the newly employed. We're still not growing fast enough.
Bundy’s Friends Have Become the Kochs’ "Useful Idiots"
The only people who benefit from the fight against “big government” are the billionaires and the oligarchs who are already destroying our country. To put it bluntly, the militias are the useful idiots of the one percent.
Balancing Trade - Remember The "Buffett Plan"
The enormous, humongous trade deficit is doing incredible damage to our economy. Our country’s elites used to care about that.
The Pursuit Of The Magic Education Metric
Education is a public investment that needs to be held accountable in a transparent manner. No one is against that. But that doesn’t excuse the application of measures that are proving to be questionable if not downright erroneous...
Blocked Wage Increase Another Sign Of Right's Economic Sabotage
What would otherwise be a virtuous economic cycle has been broken by wrong-headed economic austerity. The filibuster of a minimum wage bill Wednesday in the Senate is the latest example.
Obama Says Critics Suffer "Lack Of Knowledge" Of Secret TPP Treaty
It is not entirely fair for President Obama to dismiss critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for having a "lack of knowledge" of what is being negotiated, as he did at a recent news conference.
