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Romney Obama Vie For Who Can Hurt Education The Worst
In this week's round in the nation's presidential contest, education got tossed into the ring and slapped around by the opposing candidates and their spokespeople. Who won the round is anyone's guess, but poor education got mauled in the process and tossed into the spit bucket.
Dont Give Up The High Ground In The Tax Fairness Fight
The gauntlet has been thrown down in the tax fairness fight. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier today announced that House Republicans will schedule a vote before the August recess on making the Bush tax cuts permanent for everyone, including the rich and super-rich.
Greed vs Fairness: Bigger Than Bain
Earlier this week, I tried to explain what the Bain debate is really about. It's not about capitalism vs. "socialism." It's about choosing what kind of capitalism we want. It's about the future, and deciding what kind of economy we want. It's about deciding who and what our economy is for. It's about something most Americans can understand a lot more readily than the financial engineering that drives private equity. It's about something President Obama is already talking to Americans about.
It's about choosing what's going to drive our economy: greed or fairness.
How to Fix the Fed Dismiss Dimon Boot the Bankers and Can the Corporations
More and more people are calling for Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, to resign from the Board of the New York Federal Reserve.
Progressive Breakfast - 5/25/2012
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: Romney’s Job-Killing Budget Can’t Make Unemployment 6%
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: Romney’s Job-Killing Budget Can’t Make Unemployment 6%
Romney’s Job-Killing Budget Can’t Make Unemployment 6
This week, Mitt Romney made the bold prediction that in four years, his policies would reduce the unemployment rate … to the level economists project it will be if we don’t do anything: 6%.
Florida Right-Wingers Erect Barriers To Unemployment Claims
Thursday's reports that unemployment claims are edging downward take on a slightly different cast after reading a complaint filed with the Labor Department detailing how a new Florida law is hindering unemploy
The GOPs Played-Out Race Card
Melissa Harris-Perry will be a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream conference, convening June 18 to 20 in Washington, DC, as part of the plenary session, "2012 and Beyond: Victory Necessary, Not Sufficient." The following is an excerpt of an article
At Shareholder Meeting Amazon Drops ALEC Dodges Tax Questions
At today's Amazon shareholder meeting in Seattle the company announced that it is dropping support for ALEC, while fudging questions about its taxes and voting down proposals to report its efforts to address climate change and to disclose its political spending.
