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Radio Breakdown Joblessness the Wisconsin Recall and the End of the Jumbo Coke
This week on The Breakdown we reviewed our nation's ongoing financial mess with Firedoglake's David Dayen, talked with housing superheroes from the Home Defenders League, and prepped for the Wisconsin governor's recall with journalist Amanda Terkel and activist Melissa Ryan.
Corporations Arent The Problem
A pro-labor column in a major newspaper? I'd better look out my window and see if pigs are flying down the street. Nope, they're not! Hell hasn't frozen over. And hey, monkeys aren't even coming out of my butt!
In today's NY Times Joe Nocera writes, in Turning Our Backs on Unions,
What Bernanke Really Meant by ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games.
Alan Greenspan would have been proud of the Ben Bernanke-coined “fiscal cliff.”
The Jobs Babble
Everyone is talking jobs and saying nothing. The inadequate recovery is sputtering and no one is doing anything. In the war on unemployment, no one has picked up a gun. We’re going through the motions, waiting for the misery to ratchet up, the cities to blow, corporate profits to tank before anything is done.
Dammit Chris Matthews You Were Doing So Well Til You Said Simpson Bowles
At the June 18-20 Take Back the American Dream conference, we'll organize to stop Simpson-Bowles from passing Congress in the December "lame duck" session. Hear Robert L. Borosage, Van Jones and Melissa Harris-Perry on "Winning in November – So We Can Win in December and Beyond" and hear Rep.
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 Jobs Babble
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 Jobs Babble
Mitt Romney Enjoys Your Pain
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s reaction to high unemployment is creepy.
During an interview with CBS reporter Jan Crawford last week, Romney smirked as he mentioned that unemployment has remained above 8 percent for 39 months.
Progressive Super Tuesday Countdown
I was going to write a "day before" rundown of the Progressive Super Tuesday races, but Howie did such an awesome job that I think it would be superfluous. Please click over and read it, you won't be sorry.
50000 Petitioners Tell Justice Dept Focus On Prosecuting Bankers
In less than 36 hours, a petition by Rebuild the Dream calling on the Department of Justice to focus on prosecuting crimes done by Wall Street executives during the financial crisis has collected more than 50,000 signatures.
