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Hostess Failure Not Union's Fault

You've probably heard that Hostess is closing down and putting more than 18,000 people out of work because greedy unions asked for too much. It's a lie. Ask yourself this: are the problems in our economy because working people get too much, or too little? And if this...

Study Shows Income Inequality Hurts Economic Growth

Yes, the poor have struggled mightily while our rich have become phenomenally flush. But middle-income Americans haven't been able to jump off the treadmill either. We’ve all heard plenty of chatter over recent years about the widening gap “between rich and poor.” But...

Republicans Trying to Blackmail the President. Again.

Republicans, the party of the nation’s entitled rich, are holding a knife to the throat of America’s frail recovery. The GOP sore losers have America up against a wall. Republicans don’t care that the majority of the country voted for a candidate who promised to raise...

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

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

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

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...

Minorities to Republicans: We're Just Not That Into You.

Hey GOP, here's some friendly advice. You know that diverse coalition that carried President Obama to victory (not to mention sending a number of progressives to the Senate, and delivering an across-the-board victory for marriage equality)? The one that conservatives...

Obama's "Roosevelt Moment"

Building on a recent New York Times article, this weekend National Public Radio wondered if this is Obama's 'Roosevelt' moment." But the Roosevelt in question isn't Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President that many people hoped Obama would model himself when he first won...

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