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Is Right-Wing School Reform (Texas) Toast?
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. It's a conventional wisdom among Democrats to write off the state of Texas as a land of gun wielding troglodytes who genuflect to Rush Limbaugh and swill...
Top GOPer Admits Massive Flip-Flop On Military Sequester Cuts
Let's play: Pretend A Democrat Said That. From CNN, here's Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn claiming the sequester won't hurt the military: Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said he plans to make the case to other Republicans and the public that despite warnings from the...
The Sequestering of Barack Obama
President Obama has miscalculated both the tactical politics of the sequester and the depressive economic impact of budget cuts on the rest of his presidency. The sequester will cut economic growth in half this year. But it’s now clear, one way or another, that we will get cuts in the $85 billion range that the sequester mandates this fiscal year. All that remains are the details.
GOP Coddles the Rich; Cuts the Rest
Last week, President Obama described the sequestration situation in simple, stark terms: keep it in place and punch the middle class in the gut. Or, he suggested, soften the blow substantially by ending special tax breaks for the rich. Here’s what he said:...
Progressive Breakfast
OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "There is no deficit problem. The deficit is down 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product just since President Bush’s fiscal year 2009 deficit and is falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War II ... [But only] 6...
Deficit Is Falling Dramatically, But Only 6% Know That
There is no deficit problem. The deficit is down about 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product just since President Bush’s fiscal year 2009 deficit and is falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War II.
What Will The Sequester Do To Your State?
For folks in Washington, sequestration is kind of like gambling with someone else's money. (Congressional salaries are exempt, after all.) Republicans are betting that either (a) the sequester will be so painless that one will even notice it, or (b) that the sequester...
Is This Where The (Middle-Class) Money Went?
Tuesday's post, 40% Of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage, was updated with this chart: The chart shows that wages used to go up as productivity went up, but in the 1970s they decoupled. Productivity kept going up but wages stagnated. Now, here's another...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Washington’s Stupid, Destructive Game OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...as this stupid game goes on – how much do we cut, and where? – Washington’s past flings with austerity madness are already carving chunks out of our economy. The GDP, which grew...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Washington’s Stupid, Destructive Game OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...as this stupid game goes on – how much do we cut, and where? – Washington’s past flings with austerity madness are already carving chunks out of our economy. The GDP, which grew...
