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MORNING MESSAGE: A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "Just in the past decade Congress has cut $1 billion from youth jobs programs, according to a report by the Center for American Progress. And that is at a time when...
A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work
I got my first job while I was in high school through a small community organization run by Willie J. Hardy who operated out of what legendary Washington Post writer William Raspberry described as a "tiny, hopelessly cluttered quonset hut."
A Letter From Senator Warren
The day may come when the worst nightmare a crooked banker or compromised regulator can have begins with the words, "You have a letter from Senator Warren." But before we get to that, here's an experience that may seem familiar...
Satisfaction and Smiles in an Unequal World
If President Obama played basketball with the king of Bhutan, would the world have a better shot at becoming a happier place? What makes us happy? A simple question. In America, we’ve been asking it ever since 1776, the year we declared for “life, liberty, and the...
Kuttner's "Debtors' Prison": A Much-Needed Brief Against Austerity
These days the economic news reads like some strange collaboration between John Steinbeck and Eugene Ionesco, a mashup of The Grapes of Wrath and The Bald Soprano. Grim statistics of poverty, lost hope, and widespread tragedy...
New Evidence That We Need To Strengthen Social Security, Not Weaken It
According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for a strong Social Security program to bridge this income gap. Instead of...
Stop The Obstruction: Help Push Senate For NLRB Confirmations
The Senate is getting ready to vote on five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. They should confirm the whole package and get the NLRB functioning again. They are also voting on several other nominees from judges to cabinet positions.
Rally For Good Jobs in Washington, DC
Low-wage workers organized by Good Jobs Nation are coming to Washington, DC to rally for living wages. It will take place on Tuesday, May 21st, at 12:00pm, at Columbus Circle, in front of Union Station.
Time To Invest In Students, Not Just The Banks [VIDEO]
Thursday on Bloomberg Television, Robert Borosage made the case for Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Bank On Student Loan Fairness Act, which would set student loan interest rates at the same rate banks get from the Federal Reserve discount window: "There is a universal...
Five Real Scandals Republicans Might Want To Address
Over at The Week, I make the argument that presidential scandal politics usually fail to lift the political prospects of the party outside the White House. No party has reaped a political reward from pushing scandal since Nixon, yet both parties have repeatedly tried....
