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Immigration Reform Prevents Employer Abuse
Oscar came to the United States at the age of 16 to work. There were no jobs for him in his native Guatemala, and he felt obligated to help support his parents. He was lured across borders by the promise of work. He believed, as so many immigrants do, that there would...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Help The Progressive Caucus Disarm The Austerity Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The sequester is an 'austerity bomb' of budget cuts that will hit the economy so hard that a recession is nearly guaranteed ... Today the Progressive Caucus co-chairs...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Help The Progressive Caucus Disarm The Austerity Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The sequester is an 'austerity bomb' of budget cuts that will hit the economy so hard that a recession is nearly guaranteed ... Today the Progressive Caucus co-chairs...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Help The Progressive Caucus Disarm The Austerity Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The sequester is an 'austerity bomb' of budget cuts that will hit the economy so hard that a recession is nearly guaranteed ... Today the Progressive Caucus co-chairs...
Help The Progressive Caucus Disarm The Austerity Bomb
It seemed like the threats and hostage-taking going on in DC had taken a breather. After a couple of years of crisis-to-crisis hostage-taking Republicans backed off their latest "debt-ceiling" threat to ruin the country's credit and destroy the economy.
As Public Makes "Hard Choices" On Social Security, Alan Simpson Ducks His "Moment of Truth"
Alan Simpson’s the lead pitchman for a billionaire- and corporate-funded initiative to slash Social Security that has subjected the public to years of nonstop haranguing and lecturing. The lecturing’s gotten crude, too, as when Simpson insisted that anyone who disagrees with him is shoveling “bullsh*t” That’s tough talk, but it’s a funny thing: When the public makes tough decisions, as it did in a new National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) survey, the tough-talking Mr. Simpson is nowhere to be found.
The GOP and Obama's Second Term: Rage of an Unprivileged Class, Pt. 3
Like I said in the first post in this series, Obama didn't waste time talking to Republicans in his inaugural address because he didn't need to talk to them. President Obama's biggest accomplishments in his first term happened without their support and despite their...
New iPhone App Tracks Corporate Responsibility
A new app called BizVizz helps you track corporate responsibility. The app tracks corporate tax rates, government subsidies, profits, campaign donations and will soon include CEO pay and other info. It is available for iPhone now, Android soon. The AFL-CIO Now blog...
Peter Dreier on How Dr. Seuss and 99 Others Paved The Way For Today’s Progressive Policies
Dr. Seuss a Socialist? Author Peter Dreier, addressing a packed auditorium midday on February 1 inside the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, asked, “Who here knew that by reading Dr. Seuss to your children you were spreading socialist propaganda?” One woman in the...
Timing Is Everything
This is why I so love Pete Peterson and Alan Simpson for launching their generational war. It's such fun being accused of being a "greedy geezer" when this is the result of the inevitable vagaries of capitalism: somebody's going to be on the losing side at the moment at which they no longer have time to make it all back.
