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MORNING MESSAGE: Push Beyond The Limits Of Obama’s Infrastructure Jobs Plan President Obama’s infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a full-employment plan that puts...
Push Beyond The Limits Of Obama's Infrastructure Jobs Plan
President Obama's infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a full-employment plan that puts Americans back to work rebuilding an America of shared prosperity. But it is just a...
You've Heard of the Birthers, Now Meet the Simpson-Bowlers
You've heard of the birthers and the truthers, and probably even the tenthers and the nullifiers. But now it's time to meet the Simpson-Bowlers. Over the past few years, we've heard a lot of crackpot ideas. First there was Donald Trump and his jolly gang of birthers,...
Since Alan Simpson Has the President On the Defensive, House Dems Must Hold the Line
Alan Simpson, along with Erskine Bowles, represents a well-funded cadre of spokespeople who are only willing to present a narrow band of corporate- and billionaire-friendly economic policies. There's just one approach in their world, one which Simpson and Bowles...
Conservatives Manufacture A Fiscal Crisis, Ignore The Real Climate Crisis
The climate in Washington has been heating up as lawmakers brace for the automatic spending cuts come March 1 known as the sequester. However, the only real thing heating up is our climate, and that's where the House GOP prefers to remain silent and cold. In reality,...
Sequester Tango: Boehner Dog-Whistling His Donors
Washington Examiner columnist Byron York is worried that the Republicans aren't as serious about allowing the sequester to happen as he'd like them to be: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner describes the upcoming sequester as a policy...
Coming Sequester Cuts Will Hurt Jobs, Growth And People – And People Are Mobilizing
In just over a week the government is probably going to enter full-scale austerity. Republicans are refusing to end tax loopholes for big corporations and billionaires, choosing to let the "sequester" occur instead. Unless something changes, and soon, $1.2 trillion in...
Protesters Counter 'Fix The Debt' Baloney
The group Fix the Debt has been at it again, releasing another proposal designed to divert the nation's attention to the so-called "debt crisis," while the more pressing jobs crisis and poor-and-middle-class-squeeze crisis goes unaddressed. Watch here as opponents to...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Simpson-Bowles Wealth-Friendly Austerity Plan OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...this time it’s even more heavily skewed toward the financial interests of larger corporations and high-earning individuals ... Their $1-trillion-plus target for 'tax...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Simpson-Bowles Wealth-Friendly Austerity Plan OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...this time it’s even more heavily skewed toward the financial interests of larger corporations and high-earning individuals ... Their $1-trillion-plus target for 'tax...
