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Seeking Rents And Magic Misdirection
For a lot of people, government is seen as a simple tool to take their money and give it to people who don't "deserve" it. That's how these ideas are sold to the people --- by appealing to their baser natures.
The Healthcare Website Works - What Will Media Whip Us Up With Next?
Will the media whip the public up into a fit over the terrible state of the nation's infrastructure? What about the millions of unemployed (and how they could get jobs if we start fixing the infrastructure)? Fat chance.
Progressive Breakfast
Push From Left May Boost Wages, Impact 2016 Democrats feeling push from the left, reports W. Post: "Under strong pressure from liberals, the [congressional budget] panel has effectively abandoned discussion of a 'grand bargain' agreement partly because it probably...
“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally” In the Minimum Wage Fight
t's beginning to look as if the fight for a livable minimum wage might – just might – alter our political future. The minimum wage struggle is taking place at the intersection of powerful forces.
From Rome, Five Essential Insights on Inequality
In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world — and helping inspire resistance to it. His new "apostolic exhortation" offers a surprisingly wide-ranging critique of our unequal status quo.
A Walmart Thanksgiving, by Charles Dickens
It will be “a pretty high energy day” for employees forced to work on Thanksgiving, said a Walmart executive. What would Charles Dickens make of this latest development at the nation's largest employer?
American Workers: From Bounty to Bleakness
At the first Thanksgiving, Native Americans sat side by side with pilgrims – religious leader by huntsman, chief by planter. They shared the bounty they’d all worked to create. This Thanksgiving will be very different for too many American workers.
For Obamacare, Nothing Succeeds like Success
Despite its flawed roll-out, most Americans are willing to give health care reform time to succeed. That’s good news for Obamacare, because it’s already succeeding in states that have fully adopted it. And the success stories are multiplying.
Food Stamps Cut Just In Time For Thanksgiving
This is that time of year when newspapers bother to write about how there are hungry people in America. But this year is special. As the recession drags on for the non-1%, cuts in Food Stamps have completely swamped the capacity of food banks.
Are Corporations People That Get To Take Away Other People's Healthcare?
The Supreme Court will rule next year if corporations can ignore parts of the Affordable Care Act on religious grounds. But f a corporation take away your contraception coverage, your vaccines and your psychiatric therapy may be next.
