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Broke Students Need Solutions, Not A Magic Genie
Winter can be a miserable time in New Hampshire. When it’s cold outside, all you really want to do is curl up with a warm dog on your lap. This was especially true for me last Monday, when my phone rang after a long day at work. Instead of taking a breather, I found...
Progressive Breakfast
House Dems Press Resolution To End 'National Emergency' House Democrats push ahead with bid to terminate Trump's emergency declaration. NBC: "House Democrats planned to push ahead Friday with a measure that seeks to terminate President Donald Trump’s emergency...
Immigrants Aren't the Emergency
Midland, Michigan, where my husband and I are raising our two young children, is a small town surrounded by rural communities. Many of us living here have seen, generation-by-generation, that we’re falling behind. Our anxiety is real, but we wholeheartedly reject...
Progressive Breakfast
White Supremacist Arrested In Plot To Murder Journalists, Democrats Coast Guard officer plotted to kill Democrats and journalists, prosecutors say. NYT: "A Coast Guard lieutenant and self-described white nationalist who was arrested in Maryland last week was plotting...
Chicago’s Homeless Are Freezing and Dying
Jock Toles in Chicago. Photo credit: Diego Morales, Chicago DSA The polar vortex froze Chicago’s city streets with temperatures as low as minus 23 degrees. It was subzero for 52 hours straight. This was hard on everyone, but it hit the city’s 80,000 homeless the...
Progressive Breakfast
IL Signs $15 Minimum Wage Illinois workers celebrate 'Life-Changing' $15 minimum wage. Common Dreams:NJ Signs Paid Family Leave Big changes coming for paid family leave in N.J. as Murphy signs law. NJ.com: "Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Tuesday an extensive...
Standing Together on Trade With China
The trade relationship between China and America is destructive: China’s deliberate trade violations drain America’s strength. Beijing is to America what Delilah was to Samson. Chinese trade officials are in Washington, D.C., this week in high-stakes negotiations....
Progressive Breakfast
States Sue To Stop Trump's Border Wall 16 states sue to stop Trump’s use of emergency powers to build border wall. NYT: "A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to...
This Is How Democracy Breaks; This Is How We Fix It
This President’s Day, I stood with two hundred and fifty Idahoans on the steps of our State Capitol in Boise to protest our president’s demand to build a wall between the United States and the the world. We’re in a national emergency, he insists, one that can only be...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump To Declare National Emergency For Wall Trump evokes executive powers, to dismay of Congress. CNN: "Republicans might be resorting a lot more often to prayer -- the new strategy several senators have adopted for dealing with their capricious President -- because...
