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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: Economists Say...
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: Economists Say...
Economists Say Jobs First; Reject The Grand Swindle
The fight to head off a so-called "grand bargain" that would end up being a grand swindle of economic recovery and opportunity for working-class Americans gets kicked up another notch today when a group of 350 prominent economists and experts release a statement...
The "Fiscal Cliff" Is a Hoax ... and a Mel Brooks Routine
They're dashing through the corridors of power in Washington with appropriately grim expressions this week. Congressional leaders are talking about the upcoming 'fiscal cliff,' which journalists are dutifully describing as a "looming crisis." In fact, if you do a...
The "Fiscal Cliff" Is a Hoax ... and a Mel Brooks Routine
They're dashing through the corridors of power in Washington with appropriately grim expressions this week. Congressional leaders are talking about the upcoming 'fiscal cliff,' which journalists are dutifully describing as a "looming crisis." In fact, if you do a...
The Deficit Is Not A Crisis, "Jobs Is A Crisis, Wage Stagnation Is A Crisis"
Media Matters Radio posted a clip of the interview I did with them the other day, using the above quote as a header. Since that was the point I was making, I'll use it too. The clip is here and runs about three and a half minutes.
Stop The Grand Swindle
Election Day was a smashing victory for progressives and middle-class populism. But the deficit hysterics, budget slashers and Social Security haters refuse to heed our voices. Within hours of the election, the austerity posse was fear-mongering around the so-called...
China Trade: Republicans Choosing Money Interests Over Voters -- And Their Own Ads
The voters clearly voted to do something about the bad trade deals, trade cheating and currency manipulation that are draining our jobs and economy. The big money likes things just the way they are. Which will prevail -- the voters who just voted, or the big money...
Deficit-Deal Interview on the Wall Street Journal's Radio Show
The other day we did an interview on the Wall Street Journal's syndicated radio program, the Daily Wrap, about the election's effect on the upcoming deficit-deal talks. We emphasized the mandate which voters gave to the President and to Senate Democrats. It's a...
Election 2012 and Our Sensible Super Rich
We’ll never know exactly how much America’s super rich pumped into the 2012 elections. Hundreds of millions in “dark money” — contributions laundered through hyper-politicized nonprofits like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — will forever remain untraceable. Even so, we...
