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Calling on Congress to Advance Home Opportunity
In tough times, there’s some good news on the housing front. In slow but meaningful steps around the country, decisionmakers are adopting key elements of the Compact for Home Opportunity, and the reality for American homeowners and communities is beginning to improve....
Senators Push Yet Another Bad Student Loan Deal
Senators met with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night to hash out a student loan deal – and came up with another bad solution for students. Have they really not received the message yet? The types of deals they continue to push, which will...
Five For the NLRB: A Win For Workers
The Senate didn’t quite go nuclear, but it came as close as it has in a long time. Close enough, in fact, to break through some Republican obstruction of presidential nominees, and fill some important vacancies. The filibuster-ending deal Senate Majority Leader Harry...
Jules Pagano, Progressive Champion. RIP
It is with deep sadness that I share the news of Jules Pagano’s passing. Jules lived his entire life in service. Generations of labor leaders knew and admired him as both an intellectual force in championing public policies for economic justice and as an unabashed...
Progressive Breakfast
Nominations Deal Ends Attack on CFPB, NLRB Cloud of legal uncertainty removed from CFPB. NYT: "The Supreme Court agreed in June to hear a case regarding the legality of Mr. Obama’srecess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. If the court rules against...
The "Filibuster" Fight Was Really About Our Core Values – And It's Not Over
A deal over the "filibuster" was tentatively reached in the Senate Tuesday, but forget all the insider talk about “nuclear options” and “recess appointments." This isn’t a story about process. It’s a story about ideology – specifically, the radical-right extremism of...
Sinking In The New American Economy, And Looking For Champions [Video]
A memo released a few days by Democracy Corps, based on interviews with working-class voters in Florida and Ohio, has not gotten the attention it deserves. It underscores how deeply working-class people sense that there is something fundamentally wrong with the...
Progressive Breakfast: July 16, 2013
Filibuster Showdown Today No deal on nominees after late night bipartisan Senate caucus, votes slated for 10 AM. TPM: "Seven nominees are scheduled to come up for Senate votes Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. ET: three members of the National Labor Relations Board and picks...
Why Do Americans Live Lives So Short?
To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital signs that determine where on earth people can expect to live the longest lives. Let’s talk life expectancy. The stats first. They tell a...
While Washington Sleeps, A Nation Crumbles
There’s an old saying: When one door closes, another opens. Whoever said that never worked in Washington. The last four years have offered the Federal government a borrowing and investment opportunity that’s unprecedented in modern history. Interest rates have been at...
