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Workers Protest Taxpayer-Funded 'Poverty Jobs'
Close to 100 cleaning and concessions contract workers from various federal facilities walked off their jobs and marched to the White House to protest what they called taxpayer-funded "poverty jobs."
Progressive Breakfast
Senate May Speed Up Vote To Avert Shutdown Senate expected to vote Friday to give House more time before shutdown deadline reports TPM. Unclear if House Dems will support Senate stopgap bill that extends sequester. The Hill: "The lawmakers are adamantly opposed to the...
Filibusters, Real And Imagined: Real Is Better
Almost no one knows that the number of filibusters in recent years approaches 400. People do not like obstruction and if they did know that obstruction is occurring, they would not like it one bit.
Dear NBC Education Nation, Lloyd Blankfein Is Not An 'Education Expert'
NBC Education Nation's guest panelists have troubling track records on education. But none rises to the level of direct harm that Lloyd Blankfein has meted out to the nation's youngest citizens.
Ted Cruz's Fake Filibuster
On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz took the floor of the Senate to launch a pre-arranged, all-night fake filibuster. There was no way it would stop the Senate from voting on a continuing resolution to fund the government.
Even When You Do Everything Right, Life Happens
It's nice to think that you can plan everything properly, make the right decisions, be smart, be successful. But you just don't know when life is going to toss you a curve ball that sets you off on a totally different course.
Americans Are At The End of Their Ropes, Mr. Benmosche
Someone should tell AIG CEO Robert Benmosche that unless he's hanging from the end of a rope, he's not being lynched. Americans are at the end of their ropes, because the wealthy got bailed out while the rest of us got left out.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate Dems Set To Keep Sequester ... For Now Reid unites Senate Dems around maintaining sequester in stopgap bill. The Hill: "Reid’s ability to forge a consensus within his caucus — despite the grumbling of liberals — stood in contrast to the Senate GOP conference,...
Don’t Just Accept The Sequester
Never mind the Obamacare misdirection taking place in this budget battle. Don't let Republicans lock in the terrible and cruel “sequester” budget levels as the new budget base.
Federal Regulators Finally 'Mind the Gap'
The long-delayed Security and Exchange Commission disclosure rule on the ratio of CEO compensation to worker pay turns out to be surprisingly strong. The power-suit reaction? More bombast.
