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Meet Some 'Smart Capitalists' Who Have Already Raised Their Minimum Wage
Three business owners say they know first-hand that raising federal the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would be a win for business as well as a win for workers.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate Votes For Jobless Aid, Pressure Shifts To Boehner Senate passes renewed long-term unemployment insurance. National Journal: "A five-month extension of unemployment-insurance benefits cleared the Senate on Monday on a 59-38 vote, with the same six Republicans...
Tell Your Member of Congress To Vote For The 'Better Off Budget'
Tell your member of Congress (MOC) to vote for the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) “Better Off Budget’ (BOB). The public needs to know that this progressive approach addresses so many of the country's problems.
Time Is Running Out.
This week, government officials and climate scientists from all over the world are meeting in Berlin, Germany, to finalize a U.N. study on climate change and its solutions. A draft of the study has released, and it's pretty stunning.
Good Lord, Republicans STILL Pretending There Is An "IRS Scandal"
A Wall Street Journal story today alleges "systematic scrutiny" of tea-party groups by the IRS. It has become a "truth" on the right that the IRS "targets" conservative "political" groups. Here is what is going on.
Progressive Breakfast
Final Senate Vote On Unemployment Insurance Today Senate to pass jobless aid today. NYT: "The Senate is expected to easily approve legislation Monday restoring unemployment benefits to nearly three million people, throwing the bill to a divided House ... Seven House...
Fast Fortunes: On the Diamond and Beyond
Baseball’s top hitter and Wall Street power suits both ply their trades in a high-speed world. That hitter will make over a quarter-billion in the next decade. The top suits stand to ‘earn’ astonishingly more.
Sense and Nonsense: The Budget Battle In The House
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Republican-Ryan budget and the Progressive Caucus "Better off Budget." The former is nonsense; the latter common sense. One of them is likely to pass.
Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would March For Medicaid Today
If he were alive today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would demand that conservative governors and state legislatures stop endangering the lives and health of the vulnerable by refusing to expand Medicaid.
Saving Our Democracy From Plutocracy Got Harder – But There's Hope
The prevailing myth in America has been that the rich have a right to buy more gizmos, but they don’t have the right to buy more democracy. The Supreme Court just laid that myth to rest. But we shouldn’t cower.
