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MORNING MESSAGE: 14 Reasons To Repeal The Sequester OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "It’s been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we’re nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 14 Reasons To Repeal The Sequester OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "It’s been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we’re nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: 14 Reasons To Repeal The Sequester OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "It’s been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we’re nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how...
14 Reasons To Repeal The Sequester
It's been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we're nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how much more – they'll do about it. Now we're about to be hit with another round of...
If This Southern California Mansion Could Speak . . .
. . we would have a fascinating, first-hand history of the roller-coaster first century of the modern federal income tax. Industrialist Frederick Peabody started building this manse of his dreams in 1913, the same year the federal income tax started biting into the nation’s highest incomes.
The Inconvenient Truth Of Education "Reform"
Events in the past week showed how market-driven education policies, deceivingly labeled as "reform," are revealing their truly destructive effects on the streets and in the corridors of government. From the streets, we heard from civil rights and social justice...
Job Numbers Add To The Case Against Right-Wing Austerity
Today's Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report was another one reflecting a so-called "new normal" for the economy in which what borders on bad is heralded as good. Let's not be ambiguous about this. The fact that the economy created 157,000 jobs in January,...
Hagel: Making An Example Of The Apostate
I just have the feeling old Chuck Hagel didn't exactly prepare himself for a thoroughly predictable grilling. Or he just doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm sure this has a lot to do with the fact that he's seen as soft on Iran and hostile to Israel. But I also think some of this is just the way the Republicans deal with apostates. Hagel broke with the party in favor of the Democrats and that. is. simply. not. done. They are making an example of him.
Why Are Republicans Trying To Cut Us Back Into Recession?
The deficit problem is largely solved. Yet Republicans are still trying to cut us back into recession. Before the election they had an excuse: if they kept the economy down people might vote against Obama. But now? What is their game? Jobs fix deficits, and to fix jobs, fix trade and invest.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: SOTU Must Tackle Trade OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The U.S. trade deficits are back up – over $1 billion a day. For all the talk about insourcing, companies have used the recession to continue to ship good jobs abroad. China and its Asian...
