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Washington: Into the Vast Inane
Someone asked the Master about the principles of … traveling into the vast inane. – From the Bao Pu Zi, AD 320, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China Welcome to the vast inane. Today the...
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New Buy America Bill To Help Recovery And Jobs
This morning House Democrats introduced ‘Buy America’ legislation to make sure taxpayer money that is used for transportation purposes gets used to support U.S. manufacturing and create American jobs....
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Let’s Talk About Fixing The TRADE Deficit
The economy is not working for We, the People. But even with $4 trillion already cut from deficit projections, a deficit drop of about 50 percent as a share of gross domestic product, and...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Let’s Talk About Fixing The TRADE Deficit OurFuture.org’s Dave Johnson: “Instead of the current focus on budget deficits, Washington should be talking about how to fix this vast trade...
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January Trade Deficit Drains $44.4 Billion From Economy
While Washington remains self-absorbed in budget deficit arguments over who can cut more of the things We, the People do to make our lives better. Meanwhile January’s trade deficit numbers are out,...
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Jobs Report: We Are Still In A Jobs Recession
Today’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics – an additional 236,000 jobs in February with unemployment edging down to 7.7 percent – reveals an economy that keeps chugging along...
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Garamendi Garners Support for the Invest in American Jobs Act
California Representative John Garamendi held a conference call today to build support for H.R. 949, The Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013, with the Campaign for America’s Future’s Robert Borosage...
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10 Crazy Things Heard at CPAC, the Giant Right-Wing Confab
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, the large annual gathering of right-wing activists and followers, people say a lot of crazy things — too many, in fact, for me to cram into a single...
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Important Bipartisan Currency Bill Introduced In House
A new bill was introduced in the House today to fight currency manipulation, including China’s. The bipartisan Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act was introduced by Representatives Sander Levin (D-MI),...
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Beware the New Corporate Tax-Cut Scam: LIFT Is A Big LIE
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...
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How Was Krugman So Wrong On Trade?
Have our trade policies helped or hurt the country? You can look down at equations and models, or you can look up and see what is happening around you. Equations and models will tell you that “free...
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Immigration Reform Rally Was Also About Youth and the Future
An estimated 60,000 converged on the Capitol on Wednesday to tell Congress to take legislative action to enact comprehensive and fair immigration reform. To borrow a line from so many of yesterday’s...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Progressive, Labor Leaders United Against Chained CPI OurFuture.org’s Richard Long: “The Congressional Progressive Caucus and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka pressed their opposition...
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Labor and Environmentalists Reenergize The Green Jobs Movement
Can something be equally beneficial for both the environment and the economy? Leaders of the nation’s largest environmental organizations and labor unions say yes. This week in Washington, the...
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A Middle-Class Anthem: Good-Paying Green Jobs
“Tell me I’m your national anthem.” That was the theme of the hundreds of environmentalists and labor union members gathered today at the BlueGreen Alliance’s annual conference in Washington. They...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate – Unmarried Women On The Edge Page Gardner of Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund: “Composed of unmarried women, African Americans, Latinos, other people...
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On Earth Day, U.S. Is Behind In The Clean Energy Race
The Pew Charitable Trust’s fourth annual report on “Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?” doesn’t give the United States much to celebrate on this Earth Day. The report, released last week, finds that...
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Repeal the Sequester: It is Dumb and Damaging
“Spending cuts hold back US growth,” warns an across the page headline of the conservative Financial Times. No surprise there. Americans are in trouble. Wages are losing ground. Over 20 million need...
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Earth to Washington: Repeal the Sequester
Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. Most had forecast growth of at least 3 percent (on an annualized basis) in the first quarter. But we learned this Monday morning (in the...
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March Trade Deficit Better — Why This Matters More Than Budget Deficit
The trade deficit fell to “only” $38.8 billion in March. This could mean that manufacturing is starting to shift from China (good) — or it could mean our economy is slowing and we just aren’t buying...
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