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"Dropping Out Of The Labor Force" Doesn't Mean People Are Dropping Dead
Forcing people off of unemployment insurance does not result in these people becoming employed, as all the Republicans insist will happen. Instead, they simply fall off the grid and have no discernible income at all.
ALEC Needs To Let The Sun Shine In
Why would the ALEC network of right-wing state lobbyists want to kill off incentives for using solar energy? Could it be the heavy investment in fossil fuels by one of ALEC's chief funders, the Koch brothers?
The Other Side Of Health Care Scare Stories
You've probably heard the right's messaging that people have "lost" their health insurance because of Obamacare. But you haven't been hearing about the millions upon millions upon millions of people who have been helped.
Progressive Breakfast
Budget Deal Passes Senate passes Murray-Ryan budget deal. [Salon] "Congress has sent President Barack Obama bipartisan legislation scaling back across-the-board spending cuts on programs ranging from the Pentagon to the national park system. The final vote on the...
6 Ways Sen. Warren’s ‘No Credit Checks for Hiring’ Bill Helps All of Us
The Equal Employment for All Act is an admirable and important bill which deserves our support. It also gives us an opportunity to have a broader discussion about the kind of society we hope to become.
A 'Duh' Moment: Economists Wake Up To Income Inequality's Damage
In an Associated Press survey published today, a group of three dozen economists for the most part agree that the "growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else ... [is] hurting the U.S. economy."
Will We Fast-Track Past The Lessons Of The NAFTA Trade Debacle?
NAFTA has cost about 700,000 jobs. The recent Korea-U.S. trade agreement has already cost 40,000 jobs. "Trade" with China has cost us jobs, factories and entire industries. Now we're about to "fast track" one more bad trade deal.
Elizabeth the Stalwart
... introduces a very useful piece of legislation. Now, employers may very well find ways to use this information anyway. But at least it's a consciousness raising exercise that could affect some corporations. This is good stuff.
Progressive Breakfast
The D.C. Fight for Low-Wage Workers Nation's capital raises its minimum wage to $11.50 by 2016. From local news blog DCist: "In a rather anticlimactic moment, the D.C. Council unanimously passed an increase in the minimum wage today to one of the highest levels in the...
Support Efforts To Rein In For-Profit Colleges
The good news coming from the U.S. Department of Education is the effort to toughen restrictions on for-profit scam colleges that rip off students, families and taxpayers. Democratic lawmakers need to get behind the effort.
