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Conference Calls For Bold Approaches To The Jobs Emergency
Down with the deficit rhetoric; it’s time for a bold approach that addresses our true crisis: a stagnant economy coupled with high unemployment. On Tuesday, progressives gathered at the Roosevelt...
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Obama / Xi “Summit”— Big, Big Issues
President Obama and Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping begin two days of “get to know you” meetings today near Palm Springs. Amidst talk of development of a new...
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Sherrod Brown: “Get Trade Right” For The Middle Class
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, argued that “trade policy needs to adapt to global challenges” and “trade done right creates prosperity for the middle class” during a speech on the “Competitive Agenda for...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Banks Can’t Stop Beethoven, Can They? OurFuture.org’s Sam Pizzigati: “What do bank executives who make $19 million a year do in their spare time? They do the same thing they do in...
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A Conversation On Obama / Xi China ‘Summit’ Outcome
This week I hosted a blogger call to discuss the outcome of last week’s Friday/Saturday meetings between President Obama and Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi...
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Government Spending Improves Lives – In China
Have you heard that China is sending people into space? Have you heard about China’s high-speed rail lines linking their major cities? Have you heard that China has built the fastest supercompouter in...
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Companies Creating American Jobs? “We’ve Seen This Dance Before”
Companies say they are being patriotic and responsible by bringing jobs and manufacturing back to the US. Is it true? And how come you can’t buy clothes that fit anymore? At Netroots Nation the panel...
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We’re Number 27!
I don’t know about you, but this makes me proud as punch: Country Median Wealth Per Adult 1. Australia $193,653 2. Luxembourg $153,967 3. Japan...
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May Trade Deficit Drained $45 Billion From Our Economy And Democracy
The trade deficit is a measure of how much money and how many jobs we are transferring in or out of the country. The May trade deficit was just reported, and it jumped sharply. Other countries see...
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Stop in the Name of Love – of Country
The conduct of the New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in rehabilitating the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge can only be described as anti-American. The MTA plans to send $235.7 million of...
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As Manufacturing Jobs Flounder, New Book Has Answers
“Going down to Mississippi wages does not signal a bright future for American economy.” – Harold Meyerson President Obama campaigned with a promise to add 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his...
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Obama’s Jobs Challenge
Today President Obama will travel to Illinois to turn attention back to jobs and the economy. He does so amid an economy that is still in trouble. Mass unemployment continues its devastating toll....
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Reversing the Tide that Swamped Small Boats
The cliché is alluring: A rising tide lifts all boats. Former Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush promised it would be true as they cut taxes on the rich. If the rich got richer,...
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Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Shrank In June
The enormous, humongous, vast, staggering, unbelievable, job-sucking, economy-sucking US trade deficit shrank to “only” $34.2 billion from a revised $44.1 billion in May. Exports of US goods and...
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The Larry Summers Debate: Challenging Wall Street’s Democrats
The chattering classes are fascinated by the Republicans’ internecine battle to redefine the party in the wake of the George W. Bush calamity and the Mitt Romney defeat — from Senator Rand Paul’s...
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Glass-Steagall Now: Because the Banks Own Washington
A bipartisan group of senators recently put forward a proposal for new Glass-Steagall legislation that would restore a strict separation between commercial banks and speculative trading. Anyone...
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The Fast-Food Strikers Are Fighting For All of Us
Fast food workers have been conducting one-day strikes for better wages and working conditions in several American cities. They’ve also been doing much more than that: They’re shown the entire country...
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