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12 Fast Facts About Thursday's Fast-Food Strike
This Thursday, workers at fast-food restaurants nationwide will strike for higher pay and better working conditions. Their primary demand is an increase in wage to $15 an hour.
Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit And The Decline Of The Middle Class
The US has run trade deficits since the late 1970s. Did the trade deficit cause the "decoupling" of wages and productivity that led to the decline of our middle class?
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Pushes Higher Wages, GOP Pushes Jobless Aid Cuts Obama to tackle inequality, push minimum wage hike in speech today. AP: "The president plans to deliver an address Wednesday to argue his case that income inequality and wage stagnation are threatening upward...
Third Way’s Anti-Populist, Anti-Warren and Deceptive “Dead End”
An almost palpable air of desperation clings to the anti-“populist,” anti-Elizabeth Warren editorial by Jonathan Cowan and Jim Kessler of the corporate-funded Third Way organization.
Obamacare's 834 Problem Was Social Security's John Doe Problem
Obamacare's 834 problem, giving erroneous enrollment forms to insurance companies is unlikely to be a fatal flaw. Social Security had a very similar problem in its beginning days.
Lower Corporate Taxes Do Not Equal More Jobs
A new report shows that most of the "job creators" in today's economy are paying some of the highest corporate taxes, while the companies that are paying little or nothing in corporate taxes are the ones that are slashing their payrolls.
How ‘Limited Government’ Is Burying a Generation in Debt
State budget cuts to higher education are driving the cost of tuition to increase twice as fast as the cost of health care. Those additional dollars aren’t improving students’ instruction. But students and families have to make up the difference.
The Banksters Are Getting Off Easy...
The banksters could be forced to pay tens of billions of dollars more in settlements for crashing our economy. But, these fees are just a small fraction of the price that American taxpayers paid for the economic collapse.
Here's A Fresh, New Idea: Hire Some People To Fix Infrastructure!
Ever since the Reagan tax cuts the country has been deferring essential maintenance. Everyone said, "If you do this, later you'll be sorry." Now it's later, and we're really sorry.
Progressive Breakfast
On Dec. 4, come to the 40th Anniversary Midwest Academy Awards. Click here to buy tickets – to honor Rep. John Lewis, Eliseo Medina, Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, and Jenn Brown. Obama Readies Obamacare Enrollment Drive WH plans Obamacare push. Politico: "[Today]...
