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Obama Visits Texas On Jobs, Manufacturing Tour
President Obama is in Texas to launch a "Middle-Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour" that focuses on manufacturing. The president announced an executive order creating three "manufacturing hubs" -- Manufacturing Innovation Institutes -- with $200 million from the...
Wait, We Outsource Military Supply Contracts To CHINA?
We give away our jobs and factories and industries to China. Some geniuses apparently thought that meant we should also let our military security be contracted out to China as well. A new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), Remaking American...
Republicans Say 'My Way And No Highways'
Republicans are refusing to do their part in governing the country. They say "do it our way or we won't let anything get done at all." Their agenda is all ideology, all the time (and of course helping the wealthy). As a result We the People are on our own. We get no...
Progressive Breakfast
Deficit Down Budget deficit slashed after "fiscal cliff" tax deal. CNN: "The annual deficit has fallen 32% over the first seven months of this fiscal year compared with same period last year, according to Congressional Budget Office figures ... Tax collections rose by...
Rick Perlstein: Questions The Senate Should Ask Penny Pritzker (Video)
We interview Rick Perlstein, a former writer for the Campaign for America's Future who now writes for The Nation, about his detailed and deeply troubling two-part examination of President Obama's nominee to be Commerce secretary. Penny Pritzker.
Surprise: Who Is America's Largest Low-Wage Job Creator?
Our economy is shifting from good-paying middle-class jobs to low-wage jobs. Here comes a surprise: Who is the country's biggest creator of low-wage jobs? Watch this video from Good Jobs Nation to see.
It's a "Big Deal" When Red-State Senators Defy Obama On Social Security Cuts
At least three Senators up for re-election in Republican-leaning states next year are defying President Obama by indicating they’ll refuse to support the White House’s Social Security cuts in any “Grand Bargain” on the budget. There are a number of reasons why this is important, including the fact that it may scuttle the chance (if there ever was one) for any deal.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Stop High Stakes "Common Core" Testing OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "Ratcheting education standards ever higher at the same time we cut supports that schools and students need to reach those standards never made any sense to begin with. And the value...
Why We Need A Moratorium On The High Stakes Of Common Core Testing
By now it's become clear to anyone willing to pay attention that our nation's obsession over education standards and testing has gotten out of hand. In a moment of sanity last week, a leading proponent of the new standards-aligned tests defected from the run-up to implementation and called for a moratorium on the high stakes associated with the Common Core and its new tests.
Markey Campaigns Against President's Proposed Social Security Cuts
The Senate campaign in Massachusetts will be close and hard fought. Ed Markey, the winner of the Democratic primary, knows he has to run a bare-knuckled, knock down, full bore campaign to win. So it is notable that one of the first appeals to his supporters is to...
