by Bill Scher | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Minimum Wage Push Could Tip 2014 Dems pushing ballot initiatives to raise wages in battleground states. W. Post's Harold Meyerson: "...Democrats are working to put wage-increase initiatives before voters in states that will have contested House and Senate races in...
by Bill Scher | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Monday Vote Possible On Jobless Aid Senate may vote on extending unemployment insurance Monday. The Hill: "Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration is behind Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) vow to bring up a cloture...
by Bill Scher | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today's Progressive Breakfast is a special Christmas Eve edition featuring Robert Borosage's vision and strategy for a new populist movement: "Populism Rising?". Progressive Breakfast will be on hiatus during the holiday season, returning on January 2, 2014. We wish...
by Bill Scher | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The pundit consensus is that 2013 has been President Obama's worst year. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza pegs the "scandals" and "self-inflicted wounds" for "squandering" his chance for "the passage of a broad gun-control measure, an immigration reform package,...
by Bill Scher | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Obamacare Deadline Today Deadline to enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1. National Journal: "There are still another three months to buy coverage, but a lot of people need it on Jan. 1. It's an important deadline for people with pre-existing conditions who had been...
