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Fast Food With A Side Of Poverty, And What It Costs Us
Low-wage jobs in the fast-food sector are costing American taxpayers nearly $7 billion every year. More than half of fast-food workers must rely on programs like food stamps and Medicaid to make ends meet.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate Deal Appears Imminent House scraps vote, eyes on Senate. AP: "Senate leaders are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal ... It was expected to mirror a deal the leaders had neared Monday. That agreement was described as extending the debt...
The Cost Of The Tea Party Shutdown Keeps Getting Higher
Taxpayers are already starting to pay dearly for the gamesmanship of the Tea Party Republicans, and the unwillingness of House Speaker John Boehner to stand up to them.
Sorkin's Failed Apologia for JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon
Andrew Ross Sorkin's portrayal of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as the innocent and beleaguered victim of “writers, editors and bloggers” stands as a cautionary tale about writers who lose objectivity about the people they cover.
Is Education 'Reform' Wrecking The Common Core?
Whether you’re a big fan of new standards or not, it should be clear that the old way of doing 'education reform' will not work for the Common Core. Yet that seems to be the strategy rolling out...
Misunderestimating Who They Are
The sequester cuts were supposed to have such a disastrous effect on the country and economy — and people— that “they wouldn’t really do that.” But they did that. Now many Republicans are celebrating the sequester cuts as an accomplishment.
Get Your GOP Hands Off My Medicare
The GOP threw the Keep-Your-Hands-Off-My-Medicare Tea Partiers under the bus. And the guy who shoved first was Tea Party darling Paul Ryan who proposed that House Republicans forget about defunding the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicare instead.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate Deal Close, House Uncertain Senate close to deal. AP: "It lacks the budget cuts demanded by Republicans in exchange for increasing the government's $16.7 trillion borrowing cap. Nor does the framework contain any of a secondary set of House GOP demands, like a...
Misdeal: Setting up the Next Showdown for January
With America on the verge of defaulting on its debts, Senator leaders are reportedly near a deal. It ends the Tea Party's hostage crisis, but schedules the next one only three months from now.
Don't Kick The Can Down The Road
A "deal" that kicks the can down the road means the ongoing economic harm just keeps harming for the next few months, and then maybe gets worse. And it means the hostage-takers can just do the same thing again, and then again, and then again.
