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The State of Black America
It's hard to imagine a more relevant moment for the National Urban League to release its State of Black America 2013 report. This year, after all, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Obama Budget: Where's the Change?
The Democratic Party’s long-term prospects have dramatically improved since the November election. The “Obama Coalition” of minorities and single women is growing faster than the GOP’s white male base. If demography is destiny, Democrats are the wave of the future.
What Obama Got Right in His Budget
President Obama's budget proposal was officially released into the wild today. The White House and the media are talking a lot about the deficit reductions and other priorities of the 1%. But there are things in this budget that help the economy and the rest of us, too.
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...
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.
