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A Guide to the Larry Summers Paper Trail
For journalists who are being told what a brilliant man and insightful regulator Larry Summers was behind the scenes, here are a few items from his public record you might want to review.
Understanding the Right’s Obamacare Obsession
This summer’s heated battles over the implementation of “Obamacare” are a microcosm of a much larger and longstanding ideological clash over the role of the government in society.
Take The Texas Job-Poaching Test
Inequality awareness test: If someome makes $50,000 in one state, but the company lays the worker off and moves to a low-wage state to hire someone for $25,000, doesn't that mean that net wages paid to American workers is $25,000 less?
The One Unalloyed, Positive In This Awful Situation
Going back to Truman, presidents have been incrementally seizing the power to wage war completely on their own terms. It's getting to the point of absurdity. Obama stepping back is a very good move.
We Shall Overcome
Creating parks and fighting fires are manifestation of community. Communities are unions of people and a union of people is greater than the sum of its members. That’s why labor unions succeed in securing decent wages and benefits for workers.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Faces Uphill Fight In Congress W. Post's Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan lay out Obama's political challenge: "...consider that roughly 40 percent of House Democrats voted against the use of force resolution against Iraq in 2002 ... [Obama] is playing for his...
Contemplating War
Once again our nation is contemplating an act of war, which is one of the most solemn debates a society can have. It's worth restating some fundamental principles as that solemn debate begins.
CEO Pay: A Revealing Retrospective
Over the last 20 years, the annual lists of America’s highest-paid chief execs — our corporate ‘best and brightest’ — have included an amazingly high concentration of outright frauds and flops.
Sequester = One County, 18,000 More Families In Trouble
Tea Party types say the "sequester" is just cutting "waste" out of the government. In Santa Clara County, CA 18,000 families face possible homelessness Sept. 1. And that's just one county of thousands.
John Lewis, Barack Obama and the New March
We don’t need any more data on inequality and stagnant wages—we know the state of things and the right thing to do. That Republicans make action impossible s all the more reason President Obama needs to what he can where he can.
