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Unemployment Insurance Breakthrough Senate strikes deal to extend unemployment insurance for long-term unemployed. W. Post: "...the five Republican supporters of the legislation provide just enough votes to clear the 60-vote hurdle needed to pass the legislation ......
Unemployment Insurance Deal Means The Fight Is On
If this deal passes the House and the Senate and signed into law by President Obama, this will be a big deal for people who have been out of work for more than 26 weeks. But that is a way-too-big "if."
Enough Recrimination. Let's Build a Populist Movement.
What are we really arguing about? People seem to have brought years of smoldering resentment to this conversation. Enough. We need to talk about transformation – and about electoral politics.
Wall Street Bonuses vs the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage would give our economy much more bang for the buck than we get from the financial industry's yearly windfalls. That’s because low-wage workers tend to spend nearly every dollar they make to meet their basic needs.
C'mon America... Let's Keep The Lights On
It’s time for America to leave the 19th century behind, and keep the lights on. We're still using the model of giant, centralized power stations to distribute electricity over long distances. This is bad for a number of reasons.
Close The Loophole That Lets Companies Avoid Paying Taxes
Tax-dodging companies are holding $2 trillion-plus of taxable profits outside of the U.S., on which they would owe as much as $700 billion in taxes. Congress should just make them pay what they owe.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Moves On Overtime Pay WH announces executive order directing Labor Dept to expand overtime pay: "Today, only 12 percent of salaried workers fall below the threshold that would guarantee them overtime and minimum wage protections (compared with 18 percent in 2004...
The Audacity of Common Sense: Progressive Caucus' 'Better Off Budget'
The CPC budget offers Americans a common-sense set of choices on vital priorities. To do so, it has to take on big money and entrenched special interests. Common sense, it turns out, requires courage.
Chris Christie: The GOP's Celebrity Bully
New Jersey governor Chris Christie's George Washington Bridge scandal confirms the worst concerns about his leadership, and the soul of the GOP that until recently seemed ready to embrace him as its best hope for 2016.
Yes, Republicans In Congress Are Awful. No, Don't Give Up On Them.
There are a number of live issues -- including minimum wage, unemployment insurance, transportation infrastructure investment and immigration reform -- that may need grassroots pressure to push Congress into action.
