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Bait and Switch, CEO Style
As the U.S. Commerce Department released a report late last month showing corporate profits at a 60-year high, suddenly the big news was about how cheating surely must be rampant in social security disability.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate - African Americans Still In Depression OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday ... there will not be an all-out effort to address the depression-level...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate - African Americans Still In Depression OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday ... there will not be an all-out effort to address the depression-level...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate - African Americans Still In Depression OurFuture.org's Isaiah J. Poole: "When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday ... there will not be an all-out effort to address the depression-level...
African Americans Still In Depression
Among African-American voters there are a significant segment that has complained for years that their votes are taken for granted by the Democratic party. It is the bloc whose unity around Barack Obama propelled him into the White House.
Could Democrats Be Rebranded As the ‘Anti-Social Security Party’?
It's time to think the unthinkable: The leader of the Democratic Party is about to submit a budget which cuts Social Security benefits. And Republicans are planning a double-cross, an undertaking for which they have demonstrated talent.
At Tax Time, Our Emperors Have No Clothes
Today's conventional wisdom in Congress on taxing the rich — that tax rates on income at our economic summit have gone as high as they can sensibly go — has no real evidence to support it.
Occupy The Department Of Education
For four straight days, speaker after speaker spoke, shouted, and sang into a microphone placed near the entry way of a building bearing the name of an American president who did more to advance the well being of poor people than any other.
Robert Samuelson Spreads Confusion on Manufacturing
The Washington Post seems to have a quota for pieces that spread misinformation on manufacturing. Today's piece by Robert Samuelson fills the quota for the day.
Protect All Student Borrowers
When you’re a student taking out a loan, should the amount of protection you get from fraud differ based on the size of the lender? That is the question the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is about to decide.
