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Black Caucus, Progressives Back Warren Housing Bill Warren’s affordable housing bill is now backed by Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. Boston Globe: "Senator Elizabeth Warren is reintroducing her ambitious legislation to create millions of new affordable housing...
We Will Not Rest Until Housing Justice Is Done
On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a historic housing bill, the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act. This bill is an important step forward in our fight to guarantee housing for all, and to close the wealth gap between Black and white...
Progressive Breakfast
New Budget Includes Massive Cuts To HUD New HUD budget proposes massive cuts to affordable housing programs. ThinkProgress: "The federal government would largely abandon its longstanding commitments to keeping the poorest people in the country off the streets if...
Will the Senate Sell Our Future for Campaign Dollars?
My name is Jessica Juarez Scruggs, and I recently joined the Sunrise Movement and a courageous group of young Kentuckians who took over the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to demand he stop playing political games and take real action to address our...
Progressive Breakfast
White House Wants 'Medicare For Less' Medicare-for-all v. Medicare-for-less: Trump’s proposed cuts put health care at center of 2020 race. WaPo: "A new proposal by President Trump to slash Medicare spending puts Republicans in a political bind ahead of the 2020...
A Modest Proposal: Don't Start a Nuclear War
In a matter of minutes, as easily as sending a tweet, a sitting U.S. president could decide to launch a nuclear attack, without anyone else’s approval or authorization. In a matter of minutes, millions of lives would be lost, and millions of futures halted...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Budget To Slash Social Spending The real national emergency is not at the border. CNN: "Unlike Donald Trump's manufactured crisis and his vanity wall at the Mexico border, severe income inequality and economic greed are true national emergencies. Still, the...
Putting Billionaires in Their Place
A good chunk of the American people, our super rich now understand, would rather billionaires not exist. Our more pugnacious plutocrats have greeted this growing anti-billionaire perspective with predictable right-wing scorn. But some daring conservatives are using the successes of Scandinavian nations — egalitarian pace-setters like Sweden and Norway —to rationalize grand private fortunes. These nations, they point out, actually have more billionaires per capita than the United States. How can that be? The story behind the numbers.
Progressive Breakfast
Why International Women's Day Isn't Going Away Why International Women’s Day isn’t going away. NYT: 'After a series of historic firsts and long-overdue breakthroughs, 2018 was called “the Year of the Woman.' A record 36 women won seats in the United States House of...
Progressives Must Agree to Disagree About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Progressives and Democrats must agree to disagree among themselves about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Otherwise, they could split apart in mutual recriminations. This could lead to losing the chance to regain political power and implement a progressive agenda...
