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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.
USA Today Sides With the Public Pension Wrecking Crew
USA Today offers the latest entry in the race to punish public-sector workers for successfully retaining the benefits that used to be broadly available to private-sector workers.
The Blank-Sheet Congress
If your main goal is to repeal laws and not pass them, and then you have a draft a positive agenda for your next campaign, here's what ends up on that sheet of paper...
For Workers, GOP Knows Best – NOT
Recently, Republicans openly displayed their contempt for CEO decision-making. They ridiculed executives who encouraged their workforce to unionize and sued to stop companies from remaining neutral during union organizing campaigns.
Pledge to Tell Congress: End The Sequester
Sign a promise to join the Campaign for America’s Future and eight other groups representing millions of Americans in a campaign to get rid of the sequester on December 12.
