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Five Years After the Recovery Act, How We Keep Up The Jobs Fight
The White House has often been unwilling or unable to explain why additional spending is necessary to heal the economy – especially bad news for Democrats who'll have to face the voters in November.
Here's Why You Shouldn't Fear The CBO Minimum Wage Report
The Congressional Budget Office today concluded that a hike in the minimum wage to $10.10 could mean the loss of 500,000 jobs. But context matters. Here's what you also need to know.
Gingrich Should Resign From CNN
A man who used to say we needed to get serious about stopping climate change -- but never did a single substantive thing about it -- now is twisting the words of another who is actually being serious about stopping climate change.
No Pill’s Gonna Cure GOP ill
No pill’s gonna cure Republicans’ ill. They got a bad case of hating Barack Obama. So bad that they’re intent on taking health insurance from millions of Americans in an attempt to wound the President.
Progressive Breakfast
More Proof The Stimulus Worked New WH report shows how much the 2009 stimulus worked. Politico: "By itself, the stimulus bill saved or created an average of 1.6 million jobs a year for four years through the end of 2012, [WH aide Jason] Furman said in a White House...
Chained CPI: Don’t Do It, Mr. President
Why is whether President Obama will reprise the "chained CPI" Social Security cut in his 2015 budget even an open question? Truth is, motives don't matter. What we know for sure is that it is still an open question.
It's the Fifth Anniversary Of The Stimulus. See What It Did
Five years ago today President Obama signing the Recovery Act "stimulus." Republicans claim it was a failure and was the reason the deficit soared. So let's see what happened. And I do mean "see."
At GM, A Revealing Hubbub Over A New CEO
Equal pay for equal work? We still haven't arrived at that destination. Decent pay that reflects the dignity of all who labor? In today's America, we've barely even begun that journey.
Is PBS Being Paid To Join The Plot Against Pensions?
David Sirota this week broke the story that conservative financier John Arnold, who is on a campaign to dismantle state public pension programs, has given $3.5 million to PBS to finance a series on "The Pension Peril."
Making Washington Work
Yes, Republicans are furiously obstructing all they can, and this Congress may be end up being one of the least productive in history. But don't throw in the towel on immigration or minimum wage.
