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Why Extended Jobless Aid Must Be In The Next Budget Deal
With only 10 days left on the House legislative calendar before the holiday recess, action is desperately needed to prevent vital aid to millions of unemployed Americans from being cut off on December 31.
The Elephant That's Blocking The Road To Economic Growth
Corporate participants at a major transportation summit today must address the elephant in the room: the tea-party extremists that many of them bankrolled who block the infrastructure investments they are clamoring for.
Bailout King Wants to Challenge Jerry Brown in CA. Good Luck With That.
Neel Kashkari is a former Goldman Sachs Golden Boy and Treasury official responsible for overseeing $700 billion in bailouts to his former employer and other Wall Street firms. Now he wants to run for Governor. Good luck with that.
Cut Corporate America's Free Lunch, Not Food Stamps
If Congress is serious about “fiscal responsibility," it should cut corporate America's "free lunch," instead of voting for even more painful cuts to food stamps. It would generate more revenue than pseudo-savings from cutting food stamps.
Why The Senate GOP Should Fold On Filibustering Judges (In One Chart)
Senate Republicans have been daring Democrats to do away with the filibuster for judicial nominations. They might want to look at this chart before double-daring them.
Progressive Breakfast
Larry Summers, America, Agree: No Social Security Cuts "Voters In Key States Really Don't Want Social Security Cut" reports HuffPost: "A new survey looking at 10 key House and Senate districts found that voters therestrongly oppose cutting Social Security benefits --...
Can Centrists Leave Their Comfort Zone To Expand Pre-K?
Conservatives will continue to fight any effort to muster more federal support of preschool education. The only good way forward is for leaders to act on the courage of their convictions, not demands for compromises.
It's Back: The Budget Nightmare
It's back. A manufactured budget crisis. Failed negotiations. A threatened shutdown. And emerging from that nightmare, the continued horrors of mindless, meat-cleaver sequestration budget cuts. It is time to end the sequester horror show.
Here's A Great 1-Minute Video: How Change Happens
Why do we seek each other out? Collective action — the art of working together with others to achieve a common goal — is as old as human beings themselves. Watch this great video.
WalMart Asks its Low-Wage Workers to Donate Food to its Low-Wage Workers
If you want to know why the campaign for a living wage has escalated so dramatically in the past few years, look no further than this story in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. It’s proof that the lower end of our labor market is hopelessly broken.
