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An Open Letter to the Candidates: We Need Housing Solutions
Last week, a coalition of housing, civil rights, and consumer protection groups issued an open letter to President Obama and Governor Romney asking what they would do, specifically, to address the housing crisis in America, and seeking a meeting to share best practices from around the country. Readers can add their voices to this request by joining the Home for Good campaign.
The Banker Who'd Cut Social Security and Medicare - And May Become Treasury Secretary
Pollsters keep telling us that the public wants action on jobs, a higher tax rate for millionaires, and protection for Social Security and Medicare. Our best economists keep reminding us that job creation should be government's top priority.
Headline o' The Day
Mayor's reputation tarnished in teachers union dust-up
New "TPP" Trade Treaty Makes People Barf - With Video (If You Can Stomach It)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being negotiated in secret. Well, not exactly secret -- our trade negotiators know what is being negotiated, other countries know, heads of the huge multinational corporations get to know, but members of our Congress and We, the People don't get to know.
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: Bernanke's Wake Up Call: It's A Jobs 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: Bernanke's Wake Up Call: It's A Jobs Cliff
Teacher Bashing: The Inequality Psychology
In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. In Chicago, those men and women have pushed back.
Why Does Bruce Bartlett Want To Give The Anything-But-Super Committee Another Chance?
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
Bruce Bartlett emailed me to say that, rather than cancel the sequester as I recommended, we should get the band back together and reconstitute the anything-but-super committee to give it another chance to come up with a deficit reduction plan.
Sorry, Bruce...But I just don't see the need to go there yet again.
How many federal budget commissions, special committees, advisory groups, and private negotiations do we need to fail before we admit they don't work? Think about just the past few years: The Biden-Cantor negotiations, the Obama-Boehner summit negotiations, the B-S (that is, Simpson-Bowles) commission, the anything-but-super committee, the gang of six -- fail, fail, fail, fail, fail.
Again? Really?
Mitt Doesn't Realize That The Median Income Is Actually Less Than Rafalca's Yearly Tax Break
Things you learn from Mitt Romney:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Is $100,000 middle income?
MITT ROMNEY: No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less.
What a funny out of touch rich man:
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: So Who Is It That Cares About The Deficit Anyway?
