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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 Debate - Ask What Voters Want Answered
Republicans Reject Union Workers But Respect Union Refs
Republicans’ reaction to last week’s Monday Night Football debacle was record breaking given their decades of hating on union workers.
After replacement refs bestowed on the Seattle Seahawks a game clearly won by the Green Bay Packers, GOP standard bearers Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and even Wisconsin Gov.
The Prez Debate: Asking What Voters Want Answered
As Wednesday’s presidential debate approaches, the pundits are starting to handicap the event. There’s much talk about the horse race: Romney needs a knockout; Obama has to avoid a big mistake. Much talk about styling: Romney is practicing zingers; Obama is too professorial. Will both men turn to face each other when they are making a point?
Conservative Obstruction Cost Us 2 Million Jobs So Far This Year
In the wake of an anemic jobs report that his Republican challengers are laying at his feet, President Obama could rightly respond that if he could have signed into law a jobs plan along the lines of what the House Progressive Caucus has proposed for the past two years, we would likely see 2 million more people employed today, and unemployment would be closer to 7 percent rather than above 8 pe
Jobs: The American Jobs Act and the Bring Jobs Home Act
Want jobs? Here's how. Jobs have been on the agenda for some time. Republicans filibustered both (and are campaigning that there are no jobs).
If you are reading, hearing or watching a report covering jobs and/or the campaign that does not include this information, you have a right to call up the reporter and ask why it was left out.
The American Jobs Act
The Only Grand Bargain We Need Is A Grand Bargain On Jobs
The August job numbers -- a disappointing 96,000 net new jobs for the month – only reinforce the need for greater action on jobs. At this rate, new job creation is not sufficient to cover the people coming into the jobs market.
Bernanke's Wake Up Call: It's a Jobs Cliff
Last week, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke announced a dramatic new commitment of the Fed to keep long term interest rates low in the hope of boosting employment and economic growth.
In doing so, Bernanke issued a wake up call to the Congress and to both presidential campaigns. It’s a Jobs Cliff, not just a fiscal cliff.
Austerity Is The New Greek Tragedy
In my previous post this morning, I noted that the U.S. is starting to look a lot like Greece, at least in terms of austerity-driven suicides.
Jobs Are For We, The People. Budget Cuts Are For The Billionaires. Who Will Prevail?
We have millions unemployed with millions more underemployed or just gave up looking, our infrastructure is literally crumbling, our trade deficit is horrendous, our "safety net" has eroded below minimum acceptable standards, pensions are cut or gone, the climate is getting more and more unpredictable and dangerous, and how many other problems can you name?
A Mandate To Preserve And Extend Our Social Insurance System
Those of you who read this blog know that I've been nearly apoplectic over the past few months over the behind the
