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Obama's Base Is Uniting Against Him On Fast Track
Today 564 organizations released a joint letter to Congress opposing fast-track trade promotion authority. The organizations cover the entire field of what would be considered President Obama's "base."
"Inequality Doesn’t Just Happen. The 1% Make It Happen"
Elites believe that all that matters is that the possibility exists for someone to get rich. After all, that's their highest value, so it must be that for everyone. But acquiring great wealth isn't the holy grail for most people.
5 Right-Wing Myths About Raising the Minimum Wage, Debunked
The corporate/conservative machine is grinding out propaganda against raising the minimum wage. Here is how to respond to five of the most common propaganda points they’re trying to trick us with.
High in the Alps at Davos, Plutocrats Play at Pondering
At the annual Davos retreat of our global elites, the world’s wealthy have just spent a week wringing their hands over widening inequality. The irony? We essentially owe this widening inequality to their relentless behaviors.
Progressive Breakfast
Grand Bargain Out, Fighting Inequality In, For SOTU "Obama isn’t expected to spend much time on deficit reduction and entitlement reform during Tuesday’s State of the Union," reports Politico: "For Obama, the shifting political landscape is a chance to move past an...
Congress Has One Task: Renew Emergency Benefits For The Jobless
1.6 million long-term unemployed workers have lost emergency jobless benefits. These are families that can no longer pay the rent, feed the children, keep the car. Tell Congress it must act now; there is no excuse for this cruelty.
Manufacturing Alliance Chief: TPP Brings 'Minimal' Gains, High Costs
The head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing warns that allowing the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be fast-tracked through Congress will lead to more lost manufacturing jobs and more downward pressure on wages.
The 5 Things We Want to Hear in The State of the Union
Economic inequality doesn't just happen. It's manufactured through bad economic policies that make the rich even richer. That can change, if our president lays out a bold and aggressive economic agenda to reverse these policies.
The Worst of the Week for January 24, 2014
This has been a rough week for the American right. Some of its brightest stars now seem to be plummeting to the earth. Meanwhile, every time conservatives opened their mouths, they widened the chasm between the GOP and mainstream America.
With Dimon Raise, JPMorgan Chase’s Board Confirms That Crime DOES Pay
What do you give a Wall Street CEO who has presided over a decade of fraud and criminality, who directly supervised a unit which lost $6 billion through incompetent and illegal trading, and whose reign of crime and mismanagement has cost his institution $20 billion in...
