by Bill Scher | Dec 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Calls For Even Bigger Economic Plans W. Post reports Obama is upping his jobs target to 3M, as advisers now fear unemployment could surpass 9%....
by Bill Scher | Dec 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Auto Rescue Finally Announced NYT reports this AM: President Bush on Friday announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of General...
by Bill Scher | Dec 18, 2008 | Blog
As noted in yesterday's edition of Progressive Breakfast, Marc Ambinder recently laid out the conservative strategy to attack any economic recovery program: A trillion dollars worth of government spending over the course of a few years is a ripe target for...
by Bill Scher | Dec 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Today's Number is $850B Bloomberg cites one Obama aide to report the new administration will ask for an $850B economic recovery package: "Obama’s...
by Bill Scher | Dec 17, 2008 | Blog
Earlier today, we at Institute for America's Future hosted a media conference call to release the new report from Prof. Jacob Hacker, "The Case for Public Plan Choice in National Health Reform." (Audio of the session is here) And ABC picked up on the big news:...