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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.
Did Dems Have A Reason To Show Up And Vote In Florida House Race?
If Democrats don't give regular, working people – the Democratic base – a reason to vote, then they won't. In Tuesday's special House election in Florida, 3,400 of them decided there was not enough reason to bother.
Mayor De Blasio Is Right About Charter Schools
This is what the debate about education policy – and charter schools – so often comes to: So much sturm und drang about a favored trinket from the "education reform" tool box while matters of more importance get neglected or abused.
Green Eggs And Sham: Obamacare Does What Conservatives Can't And Never Will.
At CPAC, Sarah Palin mangled "Green Eggs and Ham" and declared that "Yes, we can" has become "No, we can't" under Obamacare. Here are a few things Obamacare can and will do that conservatives can't or won't.
Progressive Caucus 'Better Off Budget' Plan: 9 Million Jobs In 3 Years
The Caucus' proposal is a loud and audacious rebuke to conservative austerity economics. It will be a sharp contrast to the budget expected to be introduced in April by House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan.
Progressive Breakfast
Public Still Wants a Raise Minimum wage still backed, but job concerns loom. Bloomberg: "Sixty-nine percent of Americans, including 45 percent of Republicans, support the president’s call to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 over the next three years ... Asked...
Newark’s School Crisis and the GOP’s War on Our Cities
The Newark story is part of a larger pattern in which Republican governors override local governments, especially urban ones, to serve both their ideology and their corporate patrons.
