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Contact Senators To Save American Jobs
The Communications Workers of America is asking people to contact their senators to block an effort to undermine American workers using the H-1B visa program. Here's the story. What Is H-1B And Why? There is a program called "H-1B" that lets companies hire temporary...
News Media Should Clearly Inform Public About Obstruction, Filibuster
A NY Times editorial says Republicans need public pressure to get them to stop obstructing ... everything. Meanwhile NY Times and other news coverage tends to obscure the source and extent of the problem and the damage it is doing to the country. Just months after a...
A Promising Path for Pummeling Plutocracy
Looking for a quick fix to the deep inequality that so afflicts us? Stop your searching. We need to strategize instead for the long-term. A riveting new work from a leading historian helps us see how. The 79-year-old corporate gadfly Robert Monks, the former top...
Progressive Breakfast
Grand Bargained Out "A rosier economic outlook" reduces pressure on Congress for grand bargain, reports The Hill: "With increased federal revenues reducing the deficit, pushing a debt-ceiling showdown beyond the summer and into the autumn, lawmakers have been debating...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Help Elizabeth Warren Get Students the Same Rates as the Big Banks OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "On July 1, interest rates on student loans will double, jumping to 6.8%, according to current law. While the Big Banks are now enjoying interest rates...
Help Elizabeth Warren Get Students the Same Rates as the Big Banks
On July 1, interest rates on student loans will double. While the Big Banks enjoy rates of almost zero, students will pay 6.8%! Sen. Elizabeth Warren has introduced the Student Loan Fairness Act.Enter
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Declining Deficit Quiets Grand Bargain Talk Shrinking deficit reduces pressure for "grand bargain." WSJ: "...thanks to the improved fiscal picture, analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other firms believe the Treasury Department can maneuver until September or...
Seven Ways to Honor the Mothers of America
My mother has never liked Mother's Day. She says it's a phony holiday designed to boost profits for Hallmark Cards. I say, Who cares as long as everybody's happy? After all, I tell her, Hallmark isn't Blackwater or Halliburton.
Will Bankers at JPMorgan Chase Finally Pay For Their Misdeeds?
Will California Attorney General Kamala Harris hang tough in her new lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, the first to target individual bankers accused of defrauding the public? If so, it would be the first time in five years that executives at a major bank have...
Progressive Breakfast
Declining Deficit Quiets Grand Bargain Talk Shrinking deficit reduces pressure for "grand bargain." WSJ: "...thanks to the improved fiscal picture, analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other firms believe the Treasury Department can maneuver until September or...
