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No TPP Deal In Japan WH claims progress with Japan in trade talks. The Hill: "Six agriculture sectors — including beef, pork, dairy, wheat, sugar and rice — were the focus of the negotiations, and the senior official said that progress was made in each area. 'We took...
Why Would Obama Push A Trade Deal That Would Cut Pay Of 90% Of Workers?
Research concludes that if you're making less than $87,000 per year (the current 90th percentile wage), the Trans-Pacific Partnership would mean a pay cut. But that's fine for corporations who want this treaty.
Grassroots Activists Meet in D.C. In A "Battle For the Capitol"
A Sunday conference and a Monday march in Washington is designed to further a "pro-equality populism," with an increase in the minimum wage and closing corporate tax loopholes as immediate demands.
We're NOT Number 1: Which Country Now Has a More Affluent Middle Class?
Fancy living up in Canada? Granted, it’s a bit chilly. But the middle class up there has just blown by the U.S. as the world’s most affluent. After taxes, the Canadian middle class now has a higher income than its American counterpart.
Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
Sad, that it’s come to this. The drift toward oligarchy that Thomas Piketty describes in his formidable new book on capital has become a mad dash. It will overrun us, unless we stop it.
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Talking Trade Obama to use Japan visit to reassure Asian allies. Reuters: "U.S. President Barack Obama will use a state visit to Japan on Thursday to try to reassure Asian allies of his commitment to ramping up U.S. engagement in the region, despite Chinese complaints...
Parental Advice To Education Policy Makers
Current education policies are misaligned with parenting and the role it plays in child development, achievement and school governance. Policies have forgotten the parenting part of schools. We need to get it back.
Democrats Who Move Right Lose Elections – There Is No "Center"
You have to deliver for and campaign to your base voters or they don't show up and vote for you. If Democrats don’t give regular, working people – the Democratic base – a reason to vote, then many of them won’t.
Piketty's "Capital" Is A Hit. So What Comes Next?
In "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," Thomas Piketty has brilliantly and eloquently analyzed the crisis of inequality that threatens the global economy. The question now is, what do we do about it?
Why Conservatives Are Willing to Let People Like Charlene Dill Die
Obamacare didn’t come with ”death panels," like conservatives claimed it would. So, Republican governors and state legislatures formed their own. Until the death of Charlene Dill, the victims of those death panels were invisible.
