by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Making it in America
First it was Fix the Debt, with tax-dodging corporations "leading the charge for massive new corporate tax cuts paid for with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid." Now there's a new "LIFT America coalition," pushing for massive, massive corporate tax cuts,...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 21, 2013 | Chained CPI
This week two Senate budget amendments could affect the future of everybody reading these words - presuming we live long enough to reach our retirement years. That's not an overstatement: The Sanders-Harkin-Hirono Amendment would prevent the government from cutting...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 21, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
The House voted on budgets yesterday and austerity won. 84 Democrats voted for the jobs and growth "Back To Work Budget" from the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 102 Democrats voted against it. (1 voted "present" and 13 were not voting.) Here is the roll call vote...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 21, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Minimum Wage
Washington has been fascinated by Republican self-laceration since the 2012 election. Karl Rove triggered a circular firing squad by vowing to take out unwashed challengers in GOP primaries. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal begged Republicans to stop being the “stupid...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 20, 2013 | The Sequester
The next time your Republican representative says they support the troops, laugh and call them a liar because they obviously don’t care enough to make sure the men and women in the military will be able to afford college. Due to the sequester many branches of the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 20, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget, as expected, did not prevail on the floor of the House of Representatives today. It went down to defeat, 84-327. In fact, it did not even win support from a majority of Democrats. But it did win a dramatic...
