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CBO Director To Budget Committee: Stop Making It Worse
The budget conference committee meets this week to hammer out a "bipartisan compromise," before kamikaze conservatives” pull the economy into another nosedive. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf has some advice:
American Majority Wants Minimum Wage Raised - Will Republicans Obstruct?
Polls and elections show that an "overwhelming" majority of Americans want the minimum wage increased. But Republicans in the House and Senate will obstruct this.
Progressive Breakfast
House Obstacle For TPP WH push for "fast-track" trade legislation hits resistance in House. NYT: "...nearly half of the members of the House [have signed] letters or otherwise [signaled] their opposition to granting so-called fast-track authority that would make any...
Warren: "Pick Up The Slingshot" Against Too Big To Fail
Sen. Elizabeth Warren says progressive Davids can win against the banking Goliaths and rebuild the wall between retail banking activities and the kind of high-risk financial bets that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.
Now Even Some GOP Members Reject Fast-Tracking A Bad Trade Deal
Giant corporations are asking Congress to give up its constitutional obligation to consider and amend a trade treaty that requires our country to give up its sovereignty. Many Republicans don't appear to be falling for this one.
Sorry, Nicholas Kristof, There's Still No Proof School Reform Helps
Claims that the latest results of the National Assessment of Education Progress, a k a “the Nation’s Report Card,” suggest that "school reform helps" are mistaken. What the results really reveal matter more, but are overlooked.
Republicans Feign Concern About the Health of Health-Care Reform
For years the GOP fought all attempts to provide health insurance to 47 million uninsured Americans without it. Now GOPers are outraged a website is making it difficult for Americans to buy insurance!
Something's Happening Here: The Minimum-Wage Wave
Voters in the state of New Jersey and the city of Tacoma, Washington voted to increase the minimum wage in last week’s election. Something's happening here that can't be ignored.
Progressive Breakfast
America In 40-Year Slump The American economy is in a "40-year slump," chronicles The American Prospect's Harold Meyerson: "Since 1947, Americans at all points on the economic spectrum had become a little better off with each passing year ... [Then in] 1974, wages...
Imagine Democracy
"We the People." How many of us have really thought through the implications of these three words? Can people today even imagine a government that is on the side of We the People?
