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It’s Time to Tax Financial Transactions
On Friday at midnight, the sequester kicked in, triggering $85 billion in deep, dumb budget cuts that sent “nonessential personnel”— such as air traffic controllers—packing. Not to worry, though: Wall Street’s day was pretty much like any other. Billions of dollars in...
Close the Gun Show Loophole
Dozens of Americans will be murdered, hundreds of others will be shot, and nearly 1,000 will be robbed or assaulted with a gun — today.
The United States has some of the weakest gun laws in the world. To make us, our families, and our communities safer, we need to beef up a few of those laws — now.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Let’s Talk About Fixing The TRADE Deficit OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Instead of the current focus on budget deficits, Washington should be talking about how to fix this vast trade deficit. Here are some of the things they should be talking about —...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Let’s Talk About Fixing The TRADE Deficit OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Instead of the current focus on budget deficits, Washington should be talking about how to fix this vast trade deficit. Here are some of the things they should be talking about —...
Let's Talk About Fixing The TRADE Deficit
The economy is not working for We, the People. But even with $4 trillion already cut from deficit projections, a deficit drop of about 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product, and Congressional Budget Office projections that the deficit is stable for the next...
#timefor1010: Campaign Begins For $10.10 Minimum Wage
The news just keeps getting better for the millions of Americans making minimum wage. Today, three weeks to the day after President Obama called for raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour in the State of the Union address, two congressional Democrats have done him one...
The GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders" Greatest Hits … So Far
Gimme an "S"! Gimme an "E"! Gimme a "Q"! Gimme a "U"! Gimme an "S, T, E, R"! What's that spell? That depends. If you're almost everyone else, the sequester spells an onslaught of unnecessary, painful, and "just plain dumb" spending cuts. If you're one of the GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders," it spells sweet, sweet, victory.
The GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders" Greatest Hits … So Far
Gimme an "S"! Gimme an "E"! Gimme a "Q"! Gimme a "U"! Gimme an "S, T, E, R"! What's that spell? That depends. If you're almost everyone else, the sequester spells an onslaught of unnecessary, painful, and "just plain dumb" spending cuts. If you're one of the GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders," it spells sweet, sweet, victory.
New Buy America Bill To Help Recovery And Jobs
This morning House Democrats introduced 'Buy America' legislation to make sure taxpayer money that is used for transportation purposes gets used to support U.S. manufacturing and create American jobs. The 'Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013' will strengthen Buy...
GOP Worships the “Hand,” Disrespects Those Who Work with Them
The invisible hand of the market, which the GOP worships as an infallible god, is curled into a fist and is pounding America’s lowest-paid workers. Those workers have complained about the grinding poverty level of minimum wage. Wal-Mart warehouse workers and New York...
