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Sabotage In Plain Sight
Conservatives are pushing back at the charge they are sabotaging Obamacare. They insist it's just imploding all on its own (despite the fact that it actually isn't.) But in one case, they're just admitting it right up front.
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Inequality To Be Spotlighted In SOTU Inequality, minimum wage to be Obama's focus in SOTU. The Hill: "A president who has yet to add to the big legislative accomplishments of his first term will call for raising the minimum wage to $10 per hour and extending federal...
Will The GOP Get Away With Its Economic Sabotage?
Republicans smell an election opportunity – but only if they can keep the economy down, jobs down and wages down. Republicans are betting that voters will blame the "party in power," which means the party of the president.
White House's Fast Track Push Facing Serious Opposition
The White House is pushing hard for "fast track" trade promotion authority, to help push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other upcoming "trade" agreements. Fortunately few Democrats are falling for this.
Economic Inequality Threatens Human Progress.
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. Eighty-five people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the world. This gives a few people too much power.
Let Teachers Lead The Common Core
Perhaps the most tumultuous education issue for the year ahead is the fate of Common Core standards. Is it beyond the capacity of Common Core advocates to trust teachers to do what’s right for children?
Go To Raleigh And 'Send A Signal' To Tea-Party Extremists
The Rev. William Barber II explains why he is calling people around the country to join a Feb. 8 "moral march" on Raleigh, N.C.: "In order to change America, you have to change the South."
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America Gets More Unequal This Month States start cutting jobless aid. NYT: "Starting on Jan. 1, the maximum period of unemployment payments dropped to 26 weeks in most states, down from as much as 73 weeks ... the country’s safety net for jobless workers has...
A Congress Of the Wealthy, By the Wealthy, and For the Wealthy
The average member of Congress is worth more than $1 million. What does it mean for a representative democracy when most of its representatives are insulated from the real-world economic experiences of its citizens?
What Would A Full-Fledged Manufacturing Policy Look Like?
Our international competitors have national manufacturing strategies. They see themselves as countries, and they compete with us as if we were a country. But we do not respond as a country, so they win.
