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Obama Wages Wage Battle... Obama to stump for $10.10 minimum Wednesday. The Hill: "President Obama will appear with four Democratic governors from New England on Wednesday in Connecticut ... Three of the governors, Dannel Malloy (Conn.), Peter Shumlin (Vt.) and...
Next GOP Job-Killing Budget Is A Chance To Offer A Real Jobs Agenda
House Speaker John Boehner has announced that Republicans plan to offer another budget proposal from Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chair, for fiscal 2015. Progressives should relish what's to come.
Wingnut Week in Review: The Rise And Fall of Gay Jim Crow
When the week began, Arizona governor Jan Brewer thought she had all the time in the world to decide whether or not to veto Arizona’s “Gay Jim Crow” bill. By the middle of the week, Brewer learned differently. Conservatives lost it.
Colonized Minds: Anti-Gay Laws in Arizona, Kansas, Uganda And Beyond
Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are supported by the religious right.
Tell House Members to Put The Minimum Wage To A Vote
It's time to tell Boehner to, as he likes to say, let the House work its will. Use our click-to-call tool to ask your member of Congress to sign the discharge petition to put an increase in the minimum wage on the House floor.
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Minimum Wage Debate Heats Up New York Times editorial says business will benefit from a $10.10 minimum wage. "Scholarly studies and the experience of businesses themselves show that what companies lose when they pay more is often offset by lower turnover and increased...
Has the Left Surrendered? The Overdue Conversation We Need
In a Harper's essay and an interview with Bill Moyers, Adolph Reed Jr. argues the American left has ceased to exist as a viable political force. This has the potential to jumpstart some long-overdue conversations.
Know Who Is "Cashing In On Kids"
In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers offer progressive education activists a new resource for pushing back against efforts to turn public schools into private profit centers.
Without any Grassroots, This Austerity Group Withered
Fix the Debt once boasted a budget of $40 million. Today, it’s shedding staff and going into hibernation, having failed to win any of their top priorities. Their demise proves that deep pockets don’t always prevail in Washington.
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GOP Tax Plan DOA A Republican’s Tax Overhaul Envisions Big Changes [NY Times]: "Big banks would face a new tax on lending. Taxes paid to state and local governments would no longer be deductible. The earned income credit for low-wage workers would be converted to a...
