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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: The Doublethink Debate
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Obama Plan vs. The Romney No Plan OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "Mitt Romney's jobs plan is a collection of bullet points masking the fact that he has literally no proposals to create jobs. President Barack Obama's newly published jobs plan is a...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Jesse Jackson, 13 Others, Arrested At Sensata OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the Bain-owned facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested...
Why Voters Need To Know About #SENSATA
Right now a company named Sensata is moving equipment out of a factory in Freeport, Ill. and shipping it to a factory in China. Sensata will be laying off all of the American workers, but first they are making the workers train their Chinese replacements. The workers'...
If Mitt Romney Told The Truth About Jobs
Having entered the "closing argument" phase of the campaign, President Obama has pivoted to jobs. But as Bill Scher noted, the president's newly published jobs plan is cribbed from from policies that he's already proposed. President Obama has always enjoyed the...
Who Really Did "Forget Ed" In The Presidential Debates
Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Ed campaign to "get the candidates to prioritize education this election." The campaign kicked off, according to an...
Fourteen Arrests Today At #SENSATA
There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Jesse Jackson, 13 Others, Arrested At Sensata OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the Bain-owned facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Jesse Jackson, 13 Others, Arrested At Sensata OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the Bain-owned facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested...
Remembering Paul Wellstone: The Dreamer's Realist
"Sometimes the dreamers are the only realists" Sen. Paul Wellstone 10 years ago today, a phone call brought the unimaginable news: Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three staff aides and two pilots had died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota....
