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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.
Minimum Wage Will Be A Defining Issue For 2014 Elections
There is a steamroller coming. Republicans have to decide: Will they allow this minimum-wage increase to happen or will they try to obstruct it and run in 2014 as opponents of fair pay for working people?
NAFTA: 20 Years of Spin for America’s Failed Globalization Model
Despite its utter and worsening failures on virtually every measure, bankers and their retainers are still inventing new claims to spin the NAFTA model of radical property protection and trade deregulation as positive.
Watch Rev. William Barber Talk About Voting Rights
Republicans have been engaged in a strategy to convince (scare people into believing) people there is something called “voter fraud.” They are doing this so they can follow up with legislation that keeps lots of people from voting at all.
A New Deal for Christmas
While millions of Americans continue to suffer from the Great Recession, Republicans have redoubled their efforts to kill the New Deal, crushing the social insurance programs that enable Americans to care for one another.
Progressive Breakfast
Economic Populism Or What? The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky explains what President Obama can learn from Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Is 2014 going to be the year that Barack Obama tacks—and stays—left? He’s given big economic populism speeches before, but he has tended...
2014 Will Be The Year of "Economic Populism" – and Then?
It’s becoming increasingly clear that, at least politically, 2014 will be “The Year of Economic Populism.” Now the question is, who gets to decide what that really means?
