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"Gimme Five": Fight For A Full Labor Relations Board
Here’s a scary thought: On Labor Day, a day celebrating the contributions that the labor movement has brought Americans – the 40-hour workweek, the weekend, minimum wage – there may be no one to enforce labor law. The National Labor Relations Board is the five-person...
May Trade Deficit Drained $45 Billion From Our Economy And Democracy
The trade deficit is a measure of how much money and how many jobs we are transferring in or out of the country. The May trade deficit was just reported, and it jumped sharply. Other countries see themselves as countries and compete with us as a country while we...
An Independence Day Imperative: Defeat the 'Dollarocracy'
How did we get so far from the albeit naïve but nonetheless noble vision of the America that President Obama offered on his election night in 2008, that we are not just "a collection of red states and blue states" but "the United States of America"? One reason,...
Will Pro-Immigration Republicans Debunk Right-Wing Smears?
Over at TheWeek.com, I explain how Sen. Marco Rubio missed his moment to lead on immigration reform, as the final Senate deal got done without him and he was unable to woo conservative opinion leaders despite his best efforts. But I also note Rubio can still play a...
Progressive Breakfast
ObamaCare Employer Mandate Delayed WH delays ObamaCare employer mandate for an additional year. NYT: "'I am utterly astounded,' said Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University and an advocate of the law. 'It boggles the mind....
Declare Your Independence Again
It’s easy to fall into despair, to have the dark thoughts come unbidden and unwelcome. You probably know the thoughts I mean: The battle's over. Democracy lost. The big-money interests always win. There’s no point in even trying anymore. Why shouldn’t we feel that...
A Tale of Two Sequesters: The Washington Posts Misses The Point
For just a second, I mistook the Washington Post for Peggy Noonan. That’s how unbelievably out of touch with reality and the lives of ordinary Americans a recent Post article about the sequester is. The title of the article by David Fahrenthold and Lisa Rein...
Quote Of The Day: HuffPost Hill
"Congress has decided to let interest rates rise on student loans, because the bill to stuff puppies in a sack and toss them in the pond was stuck in committee." Yes, they're really doing it. I just heard Stephen Hayes on Fox say that the rates should double because...
The Time Is Now To Press For Universal Preschool
Too often, when it comes to determining whether a new public program is too expensive or not, no one asks, “Compared to what?” What high-performing business, for instance, would forego the need to invest new capital in something that is vital to its profitability and...
Dust Off Those Poll Tax Laws, Dixie
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court gave Dixie throwbacks license to resume intimidating minority voters, diluting black and Latino balloting districts and instituting the 21st century version of poll taxes – that being excessive and expensive voter ID requirements. The...
