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It’s College Students vs. the Corporate Machine - and the Machine's Winning
Once this nation saw higher education as a citadel of learning, growth, and opportunity. Now student debt is being used as a cash cow to subsidize corporate tax breaks, while universities become incubators for corporate employees and cheap laboratories for...
Republicans Toss Student Loan Deal, Conclude Students Aren't Worth It
Republicans in the Senate rejected their own student loan deal today after the Congressional Budget Office released its potential cost. The CBO announced today that the bipartisan student loan deal created and pushed for by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), Lamar...
Behind The House Conservatives' Assault On Nutrition Assistance
The one thing that’s worse than the House Republican vote Thursday to pass a farm bill that did not include the nutrition assistance program commonly known as food stamps is what was likely to happen if the nutrition assistance program remained part of the bill. After...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Says Banking Should Be Boring!
Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to make banking boring again. Yesterday, the freshman senator introduced the 21st Century Glass Steagall Act, which would break up the big banks, and rebuild the wall between traditional banking and Wall Street gambling. In a statement, Senator Warren said, “Despite the progress we've made since 2008, the biggest banks continue to threaten the economy.”
Keeping the Pressure On Republicans To Act On Immigration
When Speaker John Boehner said he would make any immigration reform bill adhere to the ridiculous "Hastert Rule," barring any bill from the floor that doesn't have the support of a majority of Republicans (aka, a minority of the House), it sounded like an excuse to...
Republicans Nix Food Stamps: This Is Who They Are
Conservative Republicans have turned the farm bill – normally a bipartisan grotesquerie of agribusiness subsidies and excess – from legislation to identity politics. They wanted to make a statement, even though they knew it couldn't survive the Senate or the White...
Progressive Breakfast for July 12, 2013
Countdown To Filibuster Showdown Sen. Reid takes step towards filibuster showdown. McClatchy: "Senate business ground to a halt Thursday morning as Reid, D-Nev., ending weeks of silence on the filibuster, set the stage for a confrontation between Democrats and...
A 'No Excuse' Approach to Education Everyone Can Support
"No excuse" has been a mantra from people who present themselves as advocates for "reforming" America's public schools. And the term is a "pillar" of more than one popular charter school franchise. The term originated from the belief that "the schoolteacher’s age-old...
Gohmert Repeatedly Shouts 'Objection!' to Silence Claims Food Stamp Cuts Hurt Hungry Families
The Koch Philosophy:You're Richer Than The Average Somali So Shut Up
I'd be simply hoping we can hold out until these evil old brothers finally shuffle off their mortal coils but unfortunately, there are probably a lot more where they came from.
