by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog
This week six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will be strategizing over how to shift leftward the center of gravity in the debate over taxes and federal deficits. It is not enough, they argue, that some Republicans are grudgingly accepting the end of...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Apparently, the "fiscal cliff" is no cliffhanger. Howard Kurtz writes that Americans are "tuning out" the "fiscal cliff" debates in Washington because "the players haven’t gotten serious," about making a deal. Maybe it's because we know a "made for TV drama" when we...
by Digby | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Today is a progressive "day of action" on the fiscal cliff negotiations with a bunch of organizations holding events around the country. Here's one from the AFL-CIO. You can click over to find the event near you: PROTECT OUR FUTURE IN THE COMING BUDGET SHOWDOWN After...
by Stan Collender | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog
There's really not much new to say about the fiscal cliff except that, as of today, we're now three weeks away from it happening. There's especially not much new to say when the only news is that a meeting took place at the White House over the weekend between the...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 9, 2012 | Blog
The Republicans are demanding $600 billion in Medicare cuts over the next ten years. Their only concrete proposal is to deny Medicare coverage to Americans during what is now their first two years of eligibility, at ages 65 and 66. But their official offer isn't even...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 9, 2012 | Blog
The political friends of America's rich aren't aiming to convince us that higher taxes on the nation's highest incomes make no sense. They're just hoping to keep us distracted. Why do so many lawmakers in Congress oppose raising taxes on America’s wealthy, even just a...
