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MORNING MESSAGE: The President’s Budget: A Misguided Mission Statement OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The president’s major purpose is not to address mass unemployment, not to build a new foundation for the economy, not to revive the middle class or redress Gilded...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The President’s Budget: A Misguided Mission Statement OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The president’s major purpose is not to address mass unemployment, not to build a new foundation for the economy, not to revive the middle class or redress Gilded...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The President’s Budget: A Misguided Mission Statement OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The president’s major purpose is not to address mass unemployment, not to build a new foundation for the economy, not to revive the middle class or redress Gilded...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The President’s Budget: A Misguided Mission Statement OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The president’s major purpose is not to address mass unemployment, not to build a new foundation for the economy, not to revive the middle class or redress Gilded...
Is Obama's Budget a Misguided Mission Statement?
The President's budget is less a blueprint for government than a statement of purpose from the administration. In this divided government, it is already “dead on arrival.” For all of its volumes and detail, it is at best a list of priorities. And there it is distinctively disappointing.
Opponents of Cuts to Social Security Converge on White House
Opponents of President Obama’s ”chained CPI” proposal to reduce cost-of-living increases in Social Security protested in front of the White House this afternoon, bringing with them boxes of petitions bearing two million signatures.
Not Sure How to Remember Margaret Thatcher? Look Around You.
Margaret Thatcher's death raises a difficult etiquette question: How do you write about a person whose policies you opposed, whose philosophy has been discredited by history, and who by many accounts was not a very likeable human being?
A Budget Compromise On Kids
The negative effects of ratcheting up security measures on schools are multifaceted. Studies conducted where is widespread presence of armed guards and security in schools have found that these measures lead to more students being pushed out of school and into the criminal justice system.
Reid Threatens Sternly Worded Letter Over Continuing Filibusters
For years now Senate Republicans have been filibustering ... everything. At the end of last year there was an effort to convince Democrats in the Senate of the need to reform the filibuster so things we need to get done could get done.
Bobby Jindal, Still Stuck On Stupid Party
Having learned the shocking lesson that people don't like regressive tax increases to pay for huge handouts to the wealthy, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has decided to go for the full free lunch.
