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Real Faces of the Minimum Wage
Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They'd have us believe that minimum-wage workers are teens from '50s TV sitcoms working down at the local malt shoppe....
The Fair Housing Act at 45: A Time for Celebration and Action
April is fair housing month and, this year, it’s also the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Adopted in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Fair Housing Act transformed the legal rights that all Americans have to...
Sequestered In West, Texas
Do you want to know what sequestration looks like on the ground, and where the real casualties will be found? Look to West, Texas, where an explosion at a fertilizer plant has claimed as many as 40 lives, injured more than 200, leveled entire neighborhoods, and driven...
Is Immigration To Republicans What Slavery Was To The Whigs?
When Sen. Marco Rubio was questioned by Rush Limbaugh about the bipartisan Senate immigration reform bill, the tone was gentle but the gulf between the two was so wide it may mark the beginning of a rift in the Republican Party.
Progressive Breakfast
Disproven Austerity Still Reigns NYT"s Paul Krugman rips flawed Reinhart-Rogoff paper: "What the Reinhart-Rogoff affair shows is the extent to which austerity has been sold on false pretenses. For three years, the turn to austerity has been presented not as a choice...
Minimum Wage Raise Essential To Fixing Our Economy
The top 1 percent earns 20 percent of the nation's income and holds a third of its wealth. Meanwhile the economy remains stagnant because the incomes of regular people are stagnant and falling – meaning they can't buy stuff.
The Democrats' Savvy Plan To Win The Elite Opinion Vote
The Republicans are balking at having a conference to iron out differences between the Senate and House budgets. This is hypocritical since they've been braying about the Democratic senate failing to produce a budget for years.
Why the 'Spreadsheet Scandal' Should Kill Obama's Social Security Cut
I believe the President proposed the chained CPI in good faith. I don't know if the same can be said about his campaign pledges on that subject, but I think he genuinely believed these cuts were needed.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Time To Demand A Vote To Increase The Minimum Wage OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "As of late Wednesday, more than 15,000 people have signed a SignOn.org petition posted by the Campaign for America’s Future. The goal is to have several hundred...
Time To Demand A Vote To Increase The Minimum Wage
More than 15,000 people have signed a SignOn.org petition posted by the Campaign for America's Future to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and then index it to inflation.
