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HHS Chipping Away At Website Snags Too early to judge, HHS Sec Sebelius tells CNN: "While refusing to give a timetable Tuesday as to when the website will be fully operational, Sebelius insisted 'it's improving every day, and more people are getting through ... and we...
Dear House-Senate Budget Committee: The Country Needs Jobs
To the new House-Senate Budget conference committee: The S&P 500 stock market index hit record highs, while employment statistics remained at record lows. Your mission couldn’t be clearer. We need jobs.
Michelle Rhee's Empty Harvest
Michelle Rhee has exemplified the education reform creed of a 'produce or else' mentality relying on student test scores. But new assessment systems have yet to fill the account left barren by the nation’s reluctance to invest in our children.
The Website Glitches Right-Wingers Aren't Railing About
While the nation has been fixated on the problems with HealthCare.gov and as conservatives spin them, a similar computer meltdown has been taking place largely off the radar of most households.
Today's Villager Wisdom
Ruth Marcus fills us in on what constitutes "reasonable" now that the Republicans have proven themselves asses with their government shutdown. And, you guessed it, it's time for Democrats to compromise and agree to cut "entitlements."
Republicans Shoot America in the Foot
Republicans wounded their party with their failed gambit to defund the ACA. But what’s worse is worse is they bloodied the economy. At a time when millions are struggling to find work, the Republican hostage taking depressed growth and killed jobs
A Jobs Idea That Could Cost Millions Of Jobs
In 2004 we gave in to hostage-taking and gave companies a tax holiday, and they broke the promise to create jobs. On top of that they started moving even more jobs and production and profit centers out of the country.
Fall Blues: The September Jobs Report
The September jobs report assesses the labor market before the damage inflicted by the government shutdown. The news isn't surprising. For workers, the "recovery" remains an illusion.
Progressive Breakfast
Dems Thrown Down On Taxes Dems "to go on offense on raising taxes" reports The Hill: "Congressional Democrats want Republicans to sign off on $50 billion worth of tax increases to eliminate the sequester’s automatic spending cuts ... Democrats say they would not...
Don't Even Talk About Cuts
Democrats won the shutdown fight. Republicans lost and the public hates them and their ideas. Here is a guiding message Democrats should use from here on out: Jobs help the economy. Cuts hurt the economy.
