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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...
Obama Says Cuts Bad, Proposes Cuts
President Obama today warned that the "brutal" budget cuts in the looming "sequester" -- the latest Republican-manufactured hostage-taking crisis -- will take a "meat-cleaver" to government and cost "hundreds of thousands" of jobs. He proposed eliminating tax...
New Report Urges Education Secretary To Take Inequality 'More Seriously'
Raising the alarm that "America has lost its place as a global leader in educational attainment," a report issued today by an independent commission chartered by Congress to advise the U.S. Department of Education concludes that the "federal government must take more...
Simpson and Bowles Unveil a New, Wealth-Friendly Austerity Plan
As the prospects for a “Grand Bargain” fade, additional European-style austerity on the American economy is becoming increasingly uncertain. That has meant a greater likelihood of a reappearance by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two Washington power players...
40% Of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage
The minimum wage would be $16.50 an hour -- $33,000 a year -- if it had kept up with the growth of productivity since 1968. This means 40% of Americans now make less than the 1968 minimum wage, had the minimum wage kept pace with productivity gains.
Rig the Vote
Rig the Vote is the evil opposite of Rock the Vote. Rock is the campaign by a nonprofit to increase political engagement and register young people. Rig is the campaign by the GOP to suppress political engagement and subvert balloting. The GOP rigged the vote by...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Wrecking Crew Is Winning OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...the Republican Congress is holding the economy hostage as 'leverage' to extort deep and unpopular cuts in the core pillars of family security – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid...
