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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: New "Fiscal Cliff"...
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: New "Fiscal Cliff"...
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: New "Fiscal Cliff"...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: New "Fiscal Cliff" Math OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Now Boehner’s saying he’s willing to raise 'tax revenue,' as long as tax rates are lowered even more. That’s a coded way of saying he wants even more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires,...
After the Election, a New Mandate - and New "Fiscal Cliff" Math
By Richard Eskow President Obama was reportedly planning to reach out to House Majority Leader John Boehner today to begin negotiating a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," a series of spending cuts and tax hikes that will take effect unless Congress recinds...
A Nation In Progress
In the words of the old spiritual, "My Lord, what a morning!" Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was defined by an iconic poster bearing the single word: "Change." Obama's victory in 2008 signified how much America had already changed enough to make his historic campaign...
The Real Mandate: Voters Want Jobs, Not Austerity
Washington is headed immediately into the fiscal showdown, with fierce pressure to use the arbitrary year-end deadline for the termination of various tax cuts and the automatic cut or sequester of some 9 percent of discretionary spending to force a grand bargain.
Sensata Vs Solyndra
The public looked at the stories about Solyndra and Sensata and voted. They voted for clean energy jobs IN the US, not for vulture capitalism that ships our jobs and industries OUT of the US. They voted to act as a united country instead of a leaving everyone on their...
September China Trade Deficit Is Second-Highest Ever
Our trade deficit with China rose to $29.1 billion in September, up from $28.7 billion in August. This is the second-highest trade deficit ever with China. The terrible trade deficit is where our jobs and the economy went. Trade i sour real deficit! But the trade...
Vote of No Confidence: My Election Day Experience In Virginia
I worked the polls in Fairfax, Virginia on election day 2012. I opened the door at 6:00 am, logged voters in, operated the machines, and passed out "I voted" stickers on the way out. At 10:00 pm when our results had been tabulated and machines disassembled, I signed...
