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Do Free-Trade Agreements Create Jobs?
The corporate push to get Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is about to begin. Again and again we have been promised that these trade agreements "create jobs" and grow the economy. So do they?
America’s 'Education Spring' Goes Mainstream
With a new school year in session, there is widespread evidence that America's Education Spring is affecting voters at the ballot box, lawmakers in state capitals, and policy administrators carrying out new directives.
Stop Playing Games With Food Stamps
Apparently some Republicans now think it's a "moral hazard" to feed the poor. It's bad enough that Republicans are proposing $40 billion in cuts to food stamps, but call it a moral act beggars belief.
Welfare Reform 2.0: Alleviating Hunger Is A Moral Hazard
The Republicans are calling their attack on food stamps "welfare reform 2.0." Because when people become dependent on government assistance for food they lose the ability to work. Or something.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Running Out Of Tricks To Keep Government Open... Congress out of gimmicks. NYT: First came the 'supercommittee,' ... Then came the 'McConnell plan,' a way for Congress to raise the government’s debt limit without actually voting to do so. And in January there was...
Memo to Washington: The Occupy Movement Lives
The Occupy movement wasn’t the foundation for change; it was the reflection of a deeper desire for it. It was the effect, not the cause, and it won’t disappear because of the wishful thinking of a few.
At the Top, a Recovery Now Finally Complete
The exceedingly comfortable who sit in America's richest 1 percent have nearly fully regained the outsized share of the nation's income they held just before the economy cratered five years ago.
Government Hands $1 Trillion+ To Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion
While our government is laying off hundreds upon hundreds of thousands and cutting services in the name of cutting deficits, a new report exposes that taxpayers are handing more than $1 trillion a year to the wealthiest.
This Year's Budget Fight Isn't About The Budget
There are many reasons why the next budget fight will be more difficult than any of the close-to-debacles that have occurred in recent years. This year the biggest complication is that the budget fight isn't about the budget. It's about Obamacare.
Summers' Withdrawal from Fed Candidacy a Progressive Victory
When Washington went to the beach, progressives opposed to the Summers nomination organized. What is clear now is that the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is willing and able to challenge its Wall Street wing.
