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Republicans Criticize Government Spending Unless It Lowers Our Wages
Republicans criticize government spending when it is about making our lives better. Of course, by definition all government spending is done to make our lives better. (In a democracy government spending is We, the People deciding how and where to spend the money....
How Do The Republicans Save Face?
Jonathan Chait flagged this quote from Eric Cantor today and came up with an interesting theory as to why he said it: Mr. Cantor complained that the president, while insisting on additional tax increases, still has not embraced the structural changes to Medicare,...
Why Do Tennessee Republicans Hate The 17th Amendment?
The Tennessee General Assembly is trying to subvert democracy. Republican lawmakers in that state want to revise our election process, and give themselves the power to select which candidates appear on the ballot for U.S. Senator. This is the latest GOP tactic to destroy our democratic process, and it's their clever way of going around the 17th Amendment.
Can The GOP Love Itself, Or Anybody Else?
"Honey, if you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love someone else?…..Can I get an amen?" -- RuPaul One of the most interesting things about the focus on marriage equality in the past couple of weeks has been the Republican Party's reaction to all the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Scarring Effect of Long-Term Unemployment OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "A new report from the National Employment Law Project, 'Scarring Effects: Demographics of the Long-Term Unemployed and the Danger of Ignoring the Jobs Deficit,' is a blaring...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Scarring Effect of Long-Term Unemployment OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "A new report from the National Employment Law Project, 'Scarring Effects: Demographics of the Long-Term Unemployed and the Danger of Ignoring the Jobs Deficit,' is a blaring...
The Scarring Effect of Long-Term Unemployment
A new report from the National Employment Law Project, "Scarring Effects: Demographics of the Long-Term Unemployed and the Danger of Ignoring the Jobs Deficit," is a blaring siren to policymakers in Washington. While noting that nearly 5 million people have been out...
Hedrick Smith: It's Human Deficits, Not Budget Deficits
Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith is definitely on a mission these days, barnstorming the country not only to promote his latest book, "Who Stole the American Dream?," but to help us change the focus of the Washington political debate...
The Long Depression
Years ago I heard an old Irish politician tell a joke, in that brogue only old-time Irish politicians could pull off, about a prisoner who had his tonsils removed one December. The following December the prisoner had his adenoids taken out. A year later he was...
Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC
With Brendan FischerIn a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid days to workers. Community activists and labor leaders struck a deal with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to allow a vote on...
