by Bill Scher | May 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Help Elizabeth Warren Get Students the Same Rates as the Big Banks OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "On July 1, interest rates on student loans will double, jumping to 6.8%, according to current law. While the Big Banks are now enjoying interest rates...
by Bill Scher | May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: "60 Minutes" And America’s Billionaires Want Us to Beg OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "'60 Minutes' was once a shining light of independent journalism. Now it’s a covert mouthpiece for the far-right, anti-government values of the Peterson crowd. Once...
by Bill Scher | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week, I noted that the Republican plan to take the debt limit hostage to demand unspecified tax reform at a future date was too ridiculous to be believed. But that battle plan looks like the Invasion of Normandy compared to the latest Keystone Kops scheme...
by Bill Scher | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Stop High Stakes "Common Core" Testing OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "Ratcheting education standards ever higher at the same time we cut supports that schools and students need to reach those standards never made any sense to begin with. And the value...
by Bill Scher | May 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
According to the Washington Post and Politico, GOP leaders are laying the groundwork to refuse any debt limit increase this year, reneging on debt payments mandated by Congress, shredding the full faith and credit of the American government, thereby plunging the...
