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Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The War on Women...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Waging Class War OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "In 2012, class warfare broke out in American politics. And from the president to key Senate races, the middle class won. Today the Campaign for America’s Future launches a new website –...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Saying “Fiscal...
Progressive Breakfast
On the menu this morning MORNING MESSAGE: It's Still About Jobs Fighting The Fiscal Swindle On Black Friday, Shopping Your Values Twinkie Talks Topple Breakfast Sides MORNING MESSAGE: It's Still About Jobs OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "A new advertising campaign from...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Minorities to GOP: We're Just Not That Into You OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "The reason that Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Women, gays, young people and a whole lot of white people didn’t vote for your party is simple. Republicans spent much of the...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Five...
There Will Be No Quick Fiscal Cliff Deal
Congressional Republicans in general and House GOP'ers in particular have been saying since Election Day 2010 that the Gingrich Republicans of the mid-1990s compromised too early with Bill Clinton on the budget and would have gotten much better deals if they had only held out longer.
Demonstrations At 1000 Stores Crack Walmart Anti-Worker Wall
The workers at Walmart have taken the first step. Some have stood up to the immense power of Walmart. This is a crack in the Walmart wall, a crack that can widen and eventually change our economy.
Sen. Durbin: Sense and Nonsense in the Fiscal Showdown
Senator Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip and one of President Obama’s closest allies, laid out his principles for a deal in the current fiscal showdown today in a speech at the Center for American Progress. The nuanced speech was a revealing mixture of common sense and nonsense.
Thom Hartmann Interview: The Secret World of Shadow Banking [video]
This Friday we appeared on Thom Hartmann's television show The Big Picture to discuss a new report on the dimly-lit world of shadow banking. Interesting stuff - we'll be writing something on the topic soon, too. Here's the video:...
