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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...
Republicans Come To Silicon Valley To Offer Corruption For Cash
Congressional Republicans came to Silicon Valley this week to raise money from CEOs and their companies. They were offering a flat-out quid pro quo: give us money and in exchange we will cut your taxes, block taxes on profits made from moving jobs out of the country,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Rising American Electorate Sinking Together OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The 'rising American electorate' is the name given to the core of the Obama electoral majority of the young, single women, and minorities. Democratic pundits suggest...
