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The New Populist Movement: Organizing to Take Back America
A new progressive populist movement is rising up in the United States. Inspired by an expansive vision of greater economic opportunity for all Americans, this new movement is also fueled by anger over politicians’ broken promises.
Wingnut Week In Review: Living for the "Inner City"
This week Rep. Paul Ryan took the cake. After debuting his embarrassing copy-and-paste job on the war on poverty last week, Ryan outdid himself with a clumsy bit of dog whistle politics blaming black “inner city culture” for poverty.
Why The Blackout On The Progressive "Better Off Budget"?
You would think a budget from the largest group of Democrats in the House, that lines up with the American people’s wishes and solves the country’s budget problems, would get some news media coverage.
Paul Ryan Gets it Twisted on Poverty And Black Men
Rep. Paul Ryan has become the latest right-winger to blame black poverty on "culture" and character. Just as he got it backwards on families and poverty, Paul Ryan gets it twisted on poverty and black black men.
Progressive Breakfast
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.
