Category: Blog
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A Mayoral Candidate in Maine Might Have the Antidote to Trumpism
Lewiston, Maine is getting national attention because of its bombastic, conservative mayor. His opponent aims to show the nation that a progressive populist can win in what looks like hostile territory.
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A Trojan Horse In Clinton\’s Pledge To \”Enhance\” Social Security?
The difference between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on protecting Social Security is concerning a lot of people who are fighting to strengthen the program.
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Trump Digs a $10 Trillion Hole, and Guess Who Will End Up Falling In
The tax plan from Donald Trump is a big deal, but not nearly as big a deal as it would be for people in the top 1 percent, who would get a tax break averaging $184,000 a year under his plan.
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Jobs Report: Another Tepid Month Underscoring Cost of GOP Obstruction
We are continuing to reap the consequences of the conservative obstruction in Congress that has blocked the critical policies we need for real job growth and robust recovery.
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Keys to Winning the Argument For the Iran Nuclear Deal
\”If you have political connections, now is the time to use them,\” says Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund, as he talks about how to push back against a multimillion-dollar effort to block the Iran agreement.
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Will Black Lives Matter At the Republican Presidential Debate?
A new generation of activists have sharpened the view of the threshold candidates must cross to earn the vote of African Americans, and once again Republican candidates are showing themselves incapable of rising to the challenge.
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Congress\’ Transportation Stall Is Our Chance to Mobilize
This time short-term congressional paralysis offers the chance to prevent a long-term disaster. Progressives gets three months to break the momentum of a corporate tax giveaway and get a better transportation bill.
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Workers In The Sharing Economy Need Shared Security
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has proposed a way for workers in the \”gig economy\” to have such benefits as a living wage, health insurance, paid vacations and sick leave, and retirement savings.
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Schumer Takes the Low Road to Fund a Transportation Bill
Democrats should be championing tax reforms that call on multinational corporations to pay more, not less, of their profits toward the infrastructure and services that support their profit-making.
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Do Voters Back White House Plan For Highway Funding? Don\’t Be So Sure
If the goal was to determine if voters back \”the White House plan\” for highway funding through corporate tax relief, the pollsters didn\’t ask the right question. Here\’s what they should have asked.