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Another Short Video - Making It In America: Reviving And Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing
Here is a second short video with highlights from the Take Back the American Dream conference panel, Making It In America: Reviving and Strengthening U.S. Manufacturing.
A Clear Choice On Taxes: Progressive Obama or Regressive Romney
After the 2010 tax cut deal between President Obama and congressional Republicans, some on the left presumed Obama was giving up on ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
Don't Blame Technology For Shrinking Middle Class
Thomas Edsall devoted his blog post today to several economists who claim that the upward redistribution we have seen over the last three decades is a result of revolutions in technology and that it will be difficult to reverse this development. In fact, much of this economic analysis is quite sloppy and it is easy […]
Cutting Off Other People's Noses To Spite Them
This is a sick story about sick people from a sick state in a sick country:
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: Are Republicans Ready To Drop "No-Tax" Pledge?
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: Are Republicans Ready To Drop "No-Tax" Pledge?
Are Republicans Ready To Drop "No-Tax" Pledge?
Republicans have been holding to a no-tax pledge for decades as a strategy to undermine government. But more and more people are noticing that our schools, roads, police and fire departments, bridges, courts, food-safety system -- and everything else non-military that our government does -- are starting to fall apart.
Need More Jobs And Less Sabotage
Another lackluster jobs report with 80K new jobs and an unchanged 8.2% unemployment, Keep in mind that we lost 815,000 jobs in Bush's last month, but this still is not good enough.
Conservatives Want Romney To Campaign On Jobs Plan (But Can't Be Bothered Coming Up With One)
Mitt Romney received a double blast from the conservative circular firing squad, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board and The Weekly Standard's BIll Kristol both publicly complained that the candidate is failing to campaign on a vision to boost the economy.
Banksters Go Wild - and "The Economist" Joins the Revolution
In the ongoing scandal about Barclays' employees tampering with the "LIBOR," or London interbank lending rate - which is to say, bank fraud - The Economist offers this brilliant cover. It's not just the word "banksters," or the fact that it shows bank executives dressed like the guys in Reservoir Dogs. It's the little things, […]
