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Want To Understand The Budget? Don't Read The Newspaper.
Last week, Media Matters released a report showing that traditional media outlets typically do not put raw budget numbers in any sort of understandable context. In other words, the media will usually breathlessly sensationalize a budget deficit of 750 BILLON DOLLARS...
The Coming Fast-Track Trade Outrage
Trans-Pacific Partnership – the corporate sovereignty treaty – is coming and they're going to try to push it through Congress with "Fast Track." It's really, really important to pay attention to this one. You have seen what the "free trade" agreements have done to...
Obama To Stump For Jobs President to drive economic agenda this week. CNN: "Obama will return to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on Wednesday to kick off a series of speeches about his economic plan ... The president will also visit Warrensburg, Missouri, on...
When House Conservatives SNAP, Here's How Bad It Gets
House conservatives revealed a lot about themselves and their priorities when they passed a farm bill that did not include nutrition programs like SNAP – the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known best as "food stamps" – but fast-tracked, without real...
Join the Day of Action to Raise the Minimum Wage on July 24th
This summer, in major cities like New York, Seattle, Washington DC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis, thousands of workers have taken to the streets protest workplace abuse, poor working conditions, and wage theft. But most of all workers across the country...
Despite House Action, Debate Over 'No Child Left Behind' Goes Nowhere
After years of inaction on rewriting the nation's centerpiece legislation governing public schools, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed "The Student Success Act" by a mostly partisan vote of 221-207 – despite a veto threat from the...
Progressive Breakfast
Student Loan Market Rate Plan Heads To Vote Senate leaders announce student loan deal, vote next week. AP: "A bipartisan compromise on student loans promises better deals for students and parents over the next few years but could spell higher rates as the economy...
McDonald’s Accidentally Served Up a Minimum Wage “McManifesto”
Marie Antoinette, meet Ronald McDonald. A lot of people are angry about McDonald's new financial advice website for employees, an ill-conceived project which drips with "let them eat cake" insouciance. "Every dollar makes a difference," McDonald's lectures its...
ALEC And The NRA Have Blood On Their Hands
Attorney General Eric Holder may be getting a reputation for saying what President Obama can’t, thanks to the irony of a black president. While Obama has shifted from calling for compassion to encouraging calm in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the...
House GOP Doesn't Care About A Republican White House In 2016
Make no mistake about it; House Republicans definitely prefer that a Republican be elected president.
But what's been clear for years on things related to the budget has become even more obvious in recent weeks with the take-no-prisoner decisions House Republicans made on immigration and agriculture: The House GOP is increasingly unwilling to make its own political lives even slightly more difficult by making accommodations (that is, compromises) that make the election of a Republican candidate in 2016 more likely.
And I don't just mean compromises with Democrats. These days House Republicans are as unwilling to make deals that make life easier for their R Senate colleagues as they are with the Ds in either house.
