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An Etiquette Lesson for Elizabeth Warren From "El Loco"
Somebody really needs to let Elizabeth Warren know how Washingon society works. Last week Warren and several other Senators rebuked regulators for their refusal to act against felonious banks and bankers when they violate sanctions or criminally assist psychotic drug...
Think Bold On Jobs: A $1 Trillion Transportation Plan
One of the consequences of the federal spending sequester now in place is that $4 billion is being cut this year from transportation and infrastructure programs, according to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee ranking member Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.,...
Does Trade Deficit Drive Inequality?
Here is a chart that looks at the overall U.S. trade deficit (not just with China) and the share of income that goes to working people. Remember, correlation is not causation, but ...
Paul Ryan's Medicare Voucher Plan Is Back!
House Republicans won't give up on their efforts to voucher-ize Medicare. In fact, Representative Paul Ryan now wants to make it happen even sooner. As the House GOP is currently preparing their new budget, which will include Ryan's Medicare voucher program, and they think it should now apply a year earlier than planned. In the past, Ryan and fellow Republicans have said any changes to Medicare wouldn't effect people 55 and older, but now they want to make the cut off to age 56.
Addiction, Recovery, and The Sequester
It was only a matter of time. As the debate over the sequester's damaging, "just plain dumb," across-the-board cuts ramped up, I just knew someone on the right would attempt to draw the analogy between government spending and addiction. "Addiction specialist" and "Fox...
Jobs Report: We Are Still In A Jobs Recession
Today's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics – an additional 236,000 jobs in February with unemployment edging down to 7.7 percent – reveals an economy that keeps chugging along against rising headwinds. Most of the growth was in services, with...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Renew The American Commitment To Opportunity OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "The simplest way to turn around reduced opportunity in the economy and in education is to put money back into our schools, and on a massive scale. Passing the Obama...
A President Who'll Cut Social Security - And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much
The spectacle of a supposedly liberal President repeatedly and needlessly trying to cut Social Security is enough to bring a reasonable, economically literate person to the point of existential despair. To see leading liberal lights like Rachel Maddow and Ezra Klein...
Renew The American Commitment To Opportunity
A current debate raging among policy makers is whether America's dysfunctional education system has created our sick economy – or whether the country's sick economy has created widespread poverty with disadvantages that our education system can't possibly overcome. In...
January Trade Deficit Drains $44.4 Billion From Economy
While Washington remains self-absorbed in budget deficit arguments over who can cut more of the things We, the People do to make our lives better. Meanwhile January's trade deficit numbers are out, showing where the real damage is being done. The U.S. international...
