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A Class War Their Class Has Been Fighting

This is a class war and I welcome it because they have more to lose than we do and we’re going to kick their asses! - Leo Gerard I attended Thursday's Netroots Nation panel, After Citizens United: Combating Corporate Power in Elections, The Supreme Court's decision in...

Don’t Worry Be Happy Be More Equal

If we grow apart as we grow economically, three psychological researchers show in a landmark new study, we will never grow more happy. Why haven’t Americans become happier over the past 50 years? Economists have trouble with that question. America's average...

Embracing a Holistic And Progressive Approach To Ending Poverty

Don’t you just love it when a Senator nails the issue of poverty in American with a single sentence? That is just what Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) did last Thursday at the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s when he said: “The federal government is the only...

Death By 1000 Medicaid Cuts

TAKE ACTION. Tell Vice-President Biden: No Bad Deals. No Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security. Budget-cutting can be a bloody business, depending upon where and how deeply one cuts. It can be a deadly business too. Not for the budget-cutters, though. That's...

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