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Progressive Breakfast: Denying The Recession. Dismissing The Solution.
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Feel That? It's Your Economy Shrinking. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared we've been in recession since December 2007. Washington Monthly's...
Progressive Breakfast: Denying The Recession. Dismissing The Solution.
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Feel That? It's Your Economy Shrinking. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared we've been in recession since December 2007. Washington Monthly's...
Progressive Breakfast: Denying The Recession. Dismissing The Solution.
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Feel That? It's Your Economy Shrinking. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared we've been in recession since December 2007. Washington Monthly's...
Progressive Breakfast: Denying The Recession. Dismissing The Solution.
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Feel That? It's Your Economy Shrinking. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared we've been in recession since December 2007. Washington Monthly's...
Progressive Breakfast: Denying The Recession. Dismissing The Solution.
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Feel That? It's Your Economy Shrinking. The National Bureau of Economic Research declared we've been in recession since December 2007. Washington Monthly's...
The House GOP's Disaster Relief Disaster
After a day or so of public shaming by fellow Republicans like New Jersery Gov. Chris Christie, and New York Rep. Peter King (R, N.Y. 3), House Republican leadership managed a vote on Hurricane Sandy relief — albeit a meager $9.7 billion of the $60 billion requested...
Don't Feed The Debt-Ceiling Trolls
Bloggers have learned some hard lessons about engaging with right-wing nutcases who leave nasty comments: "Don't feed the trolls." Starve them of the attention they seek. Ignore them and move on. This advice also applies to the right-wing nutcases threatening to bring down our economy by refusing to raise the debt-ceiling limit. They won't get any traction on this unless Democrats engage with them. So ignore them, isolate them and scorn them but do not engage with them. Their billionaire & Wall Street funders will stop them and the pubic will see them for what they are, but only if we all just leave them alone. They aren't really going to hold their breath until we all die.
December Jobs Report: A Warning To Washington
The December Jobs Report is a warning to Washington: This economy is growing – with 155,000 new jobs and 7.8 percent unemployment. But that’s barely enough to cover the new workers coming in to the workforce.
Now every working American will face an increase in their payroll taxes. Spending at the Federal level will continue to slow. With the winding down of the Recovery Act and the cuts imposed by the last debt ceiling deal, Congress and the President should stop focusing on deficits and start working to create jobs and get Americans back to work.
How We Get Jobs Back On The Table
Overlooked in the aftermath of the "fiscal cliff" deal and the questions about what spending cuts may be around the corner, was this part of President's Obama statement following the bill's passage: I think we all recognize this law is just one step in the broader...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Deficit Debate’s Sick Secret Is Killing Us OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The problem, of course, is our health care system – although 'system' seems like a flattering word for this greed-driven, anarchic three-ring circus ... Where does all the...
