by Bill Scher | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Budget Deal Sealed Congressional negotiators reach two-year budget deal. NYT: "The agreement, which would finance the government through Sept. 30, 2015, would eliminate about $63 billion in across-the-board domestic and military cuts. But it would provide $23 billion...
by Bill Scher | Dec 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today a new report was jointly released by the Institute for America's Future, Center for American Progress and the BlueGreen Alliance, "The Green Industrial Revolution and the United States: In the Clean Energy Race, Is the United States a Leader or a Luddite?" The...
by Bill Scher | Dec 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Budget Deal May Hurt Workers, Jobless Dems question emerging budget deal. W. Post: "It was unclear Monday whether Democrats would succeed in their campaign to win a year-long extension of emergency jobless benefits, which are set to expire at the end of the month,...
by Bill Scher | Dec 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Budget "Cease-Fire" Expected W. Post describes likely budget agreement this week as a "cease-fire": "Republicans and Democrats are abandoning their debt-reduction goals, laying down arms and, for the moment, trying to avoid another economy-damaging standoff ......
by Bill Scher | Dec 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
That's right. With nothing. In the President's speech on inequality he said, "If Republicans have concrete plans that will actually...
