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Dems Defend Obamacare Dem unity on health care. McClatchy: "Top congressional Democrats on Sunday stood by President Obama and the flawed rollout of the government's health-care website, expressing confidence the problems would be fixed and the issue would not drag...
For Democrats, a Tax-the-Rich Road to Victory
There is an opportunity to shift the budget debate to an area where Democrats hold the high ground. But it will be a challenge for some Democrats to take the initiative on a subject they seem reluctant to discuss. The subject is taxes.
Another Way Obamacare Is Not Katrina
It's not only that Obamacare hasn't killed anybody. Bush made government dumber, and we got Katrina. Obama, by taking on health care, will make government smarter.
State "Stink Tanks" Exposed
There is a certain credibility that comes from academic-sounding "studies" and "reports" from actual "institutes." But in this case the self-serving "reports" come from what appear to be corporate PR and lobbying firms, not real think tanks.
A Peek Behind The TPP Curtain.
Americans got a peak behind the curtain of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and what we found is frightening. Wikileaks published a draft of the “intellectual property rights” chapter, and it poses a serious risk to free speech and information access.
High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs Rip Off the Middle Class and the Poor
Americans’ heavy reliance on the private sector to provide social goods and services makes the financing of our entire social welfare system far less fair. It’s a great deal for the wealthiest, and a huge rip-off for the rest of us.
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Obama Tweaks Grandfather Clause WH proposal to loosen ACA grandfather clause has uncertain impact. TNR's Jonathan Cohn: "Insurers already had the right to extend existing insurance plans, for up to one year, even if those plans did not comply with Obamacare...
Heretics in the Temples of Market Fundamentalism
Beneath the Tea Party-generated gridlock in Washington, continued mass unemployment and growing inequality are confounding the old economic consensus. Heresies sounded in the temples of the old faith suggest the debate on reform has only begun.
The Yellen Hearing: Dreams, Reality, and the Fed
The crash of 2008 cost our economy as much as $14 trillion, long-term unemployment is at record highs - and Republicans kept asking the nominee for Federal Reserve Chair when the Fed would stop trying to do anything about it.
Enormous, Humongous China Trade Deficit Breaks Record -- Again
Wall Street and corporate conservatives have the money to scare people into worrying about the wrong deficit, but it is the trade deficit that is the problem that is holding back the economy.
