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MORNING MESSAGE: Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama’s Budget OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "The narrative that there’s a sort of generational warfare breaking out in the Democratic Party is remarkably false, though. Because Social Security...
Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama's Budget
Now that every major media outlet has weighed in on the budget that President Obama introduced last week, the conventional wisdom is that Obama has proposed a "balance" of new revenues and spending cuts with an emphasis on sacrificing "entitlements" enjoyed by old...
Why Education Advocates Join the Progressive Opposition to Obama's Budget
Now that every major media outlet has weighed in on the budget that President Obama introduced last week, the conventional wisdom is that Obama has proposed a "balance" of new revenues and spending cuts with an emphasis on sacrificing "entitlements" enjoyed by old...
Not the Picture Picasso Would Have Painted
A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren't saving our culture.
Not the Picture Picasso Would Have Painted
A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren't saving our culture.
Why Cutting Social Security Benefits Is Such a Big Deal
Last week President Obama announced a budget that includes something called "chained CPI" as a way to reduce Social Security benefits. I will not support it.
Class War: Politico Acknowledges Key To Democratic Party Success
In our post-mortem of the 2012 elections, the Campaign for America's Future was one of the few organizations willing to say that "class war" was not only the common theme of many of the Democratic Party's electoral successes but it is a strategy that the party should...
Will Social Security Cuts Be The Democratic Party's "New Coke?"
All the smartest people in the executive suites just knew that the taste of Coca-Cola needed "reform." Rival Pepsi was advertising to the "New Generation" and Coke's executives came to believe their product wasn't what the "cool" people wanted to drink. Everyone they...
Check Out The 'Executive PayWatch' Site
Take a look at the 2013 Edition of the website called Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site, active since 1997, helps drive awareness of the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average employee. Compare your pay to the pay of top executives. Heck, you might...
Progressive Breakfast
More Work Needed For Progressive Tax Code Corporations should pay higher taxes, argues James Livingston in NYT oped: "For most of the 1950s, corporate income at large companies was taxed at 52 percent ... by slashing corporate income taxes and forcing a new reliance...
