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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...
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...
Wall Street's Misdeeds Cost Trillions, But It's Main Street Who's Getting Nickel-and-Dimed.
Take a look at these two sentences: “(I)f losses from the 2007- 2009 crisis were to reach similar levels (as they did in previous recessions) ... losses could exceed $13 trillion.” Government Accountability Office “You would think that any regulation that could affect...
The Wrecking Crew Is Winning
Congress is taking this week off on the first of their spring breaks. The legislators will return to find only four days left before the first of the Republican Congress’ austerity bombs – the deep automatic cuts in government spending known as the sequester – is set...
Our Residential Future: Segregation Forever?
Rising inequality, newly released data make plain, has left America's metro areas — and neighborhoods — considerably less mixed by income. Are the rich about to bid the rest of us good-bye?
