by Bill Scher | Aug 17, 2009 | Blog
As noted in today's Progressive Breakfast, the White House's stance on a public health insurance option is not new. The President and his staff have always made a strong argument for a public option, but have always refrained from refusing to sign legislation that...
by Bill Scher | Aug 16, 2009 | Blog
The progressive netroots send a strong message on health care reform in the annual Netroots Nation straw poll, placing the issue as the top strategic priority, and settling for nothing less than directing the federal government to provide the option of a public health...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 16, 2009 | Blog
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's awesomely affluent partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers. Emmanuel Saez, the Berkeley economist who many now consider the world’s top...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 15, 2009 | Blog
When Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's senior adviser, addressed sometimes tough questions from bloggers and activists at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh, there was a consistent theme: If progressives are going to have much sway in the Obama...
by Tula Connell | Aug 14, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
So I took a tour of a steel plant today. There was a lot of hot, molten steel, but also high-tech computerized systems running the show, making sure just enough steel is poured into a mold at just the right temperature and speed, among many other functions. The...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 14, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
I had the opportunity to tour a steel plant outside of Pittsburgh yesterday. (I am here for the Netroots Nation convention.) The word that keeps coming into my mind is "intense." I experienced intense heat, intense colors in the molten steel, and intense faces on the...
