Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Report Reveals The Unequal States Of America
In 26 out of the 50 states, the top 1 percent have seized all of the income growth since the end of the Great Recession. Income inequality is not just a feature of certain regions or economic sectors.
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Here\’s Why You Shouldn\’t Fear The CBO Minimum Wage Report
The Congressional Budget Office today concluded that a hike in the minimum wage to $10.10 could mean the loss of 500,000 jobs. But context matters. Here\’s what you also need to know.
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Is PBS Being Paid To Join The Plot Against Pensions?
David Sirota this week broke the story that conservative financier John Arnold, who is on a campaign to dismantle state public pension programs, has given $3.5 million to PBS to finance a series on \”The Pension Peril.\”
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Excuse To Block Jobless Benefits Not Only Disgraceful, But Dumb
Sens. Dan Coats and Rob Portman joined a filibuster of emergency jobless benefits because they could not attach a provision that would force recipients for take any job that was offered, no matter how low-paying or demeaning.
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Transportation Funding Search Could Go Off Track
There are danger signs that an effort to open up more money for better roads and public transportation will reward the corporate tax-dodging the administration and a majority of Americans want to eliminate.
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A March In North Carolina For The Soul Of America
There is a growing populist resistance to the conservative extremist agenda, and Saturday\’s Moral March on Raleigh was designed to launch the next phase of a nationwide push-back against tea-party Republicans.
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Jobs Report: More Right-Wing Obstruction, More Pain For The Jobless
Today\’s unemployment report, coming on the heels of the Senate\’s filibuster of emergency jobless benefits, is the bitter fruit of a broader campaign of obstructing measures we need to put people back to work.
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Hartmann, Borosage and Eskow: What\’s Next After Henry Waxman?
Watch this segment of \”The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann\” in which Robert Borosage and Richard Eskow discuss progressive politics in the wake of the retirement of long-time California Rep. Henry Waxman.
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Keep The Heat On The Senate To Renew Jobless Benefits
Senators – particularly Republicans – need to be flooded with calls this afternoon and Monday from members of the public who say, \”End the stalling. Vote to reinstate emergency jobless benefits now.\”
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To Celebrate FDR\’s Birthday, Obama Could Channel His Inner Roosevelt
It\’s an appropriate day to make a broader, more audacious statement about what every American should expect from our economy, and thus what our government should do to uphold those basis expectations.