by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 25, 2015 | People's Budget, Progressive Vision
[fve]http://youtu.be/6JmsLUC7zos[/fve]Rep. Raùl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is presented Tuesday with the names of more than 150,000 people who signed up to be co-sponsors of the People's Budget. Politics isn't always the art...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog, People's Budget, Progressive Vision
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCWSHtQ5CM] In a recent televised conversation, Thom Hartmann and I discussed the Congressional Progressive Caucus' proposed federal budget. The "People's Budget" would create 8.8 million new jobs, rebuild our crumbling...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, Health, Progressive Vision
Shock and awe describes the budgets issued last week by Republicans in the House and Senate. The shock is that the GOP never stops trying to destroy beloved programs like Medicare. Awe inspiring is their audacity in describing their killing plans as moral. When the...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Former governor Martin O'Malley and former senator Jim Webb spoke at a firefighters' union event earlier this month. Both are the subject of renewed press interest as they contemplate entering the presidential race. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been publicly weighing a...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog, Progressive Vision
The editors of The Boston Globe called on Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president this weekend, joining over 300,000 “Run Warren Run” activists who have already built the largest field operation of any candidate in Iowa. The Globe argues that it would...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 20, 2015 | People's Budget, Progressive Vision
A new progressive platform for "Building a Movement for People and the Planet" was published this week by the Campaign for America's Future and National People's Action. That platform lays out 12 key planks of a progressive agenda that the two organizations expect to...
