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"Right to Work's" Dark Side - Low Wages, Economic Decline
Michigan Republicans are pushing low wages, claiming that "right-to-work" laws will "attract businesses." Does it work?
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: A Still, Small Voice OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Last year in Africa I heard the story of a nine-year-old girl who took her own life rather than face the horrors in her village. Her voice has spoken to me ever since, informing the work of my days...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: A Still, Small Voice OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Last year in Africa I heard the story of a nine-year-old girl who took her own life rather than face the horrors in her village. Her voice has spoken to me ever since, informing the work of my days...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: A Still, Small Voice OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Last year in Africa I heard the story of a nine-year-old girl who took her own life rather than face the horrors in her village. Her voice has spoken to me ever since, informing the work of my days...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: A Still, Small Voice OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Last year in Africa I heard the story of a nine-year-old girl who took her own life rather than face the horrors in her village. Her voice has spoken to me ever since, informing the work of my days...
Presenting America’s Top Ten Greediest of 2012
Some of today's most greedy are running giant multinationals. Some are just running their mouths. Their stories remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in the year ahead. The essence of greed? Simple. Greed amounts to taking more than...
A Still, Small Voice
From a tragic weekend, a return to the daily grind of politics. Our hearts may not be in it, but the challenge is undying and the struggle is one: to protect each other and preserve our humanity in the face of relentless forces. Still, the tragedy haunts. A friend of...
Sen. Merkley Blasts Too Big to Jail Policy on Big Banks
Senator Jeff Merkley, one of the handful of independent stalwarts on bank reform, today blasted the Attorney General for the Justice Department's apparent policy of giving big bankers a "get out of jail free" card. As he notes British bank HSBC admitted to serial...
DC Elites Literally Propose Old People Eat Cat Food
The latest proposal to cut Social Security coming from our out-of-touch DC elites literally says that because old people cut back to cat food when people food is expensive, then we shouldn't let Social Security rise enough to keep covering people food. It literally...
Why Can't Conservatives Be Honest About Filibuster Reform?
Yesterday I noted that the main Senate Republican arguments against filibuster reform pretend that Democrats want to do away with minority filibusters, when in fact the proposals on the table simply ensure that filibusters be conducted in public view. Today, the...
