Category: Conservatism
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Privatization Panacea? It\’s Not Proving True For Some D.C. Bus Riders
A report that 95 percent of the D.C. Circulator buses that serve the downtown and tourist areas of the city have safety problems is held up as the latest example of the fallacy of privatization.
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Stoke Job Growth Or Choke It? The GOP Makes The Wrong Choice Again
The People\’s Budget formally released this week by the Congressional Progressive Caucus is not a symbolic exercise. It is central to a debate that the country must have to challenge economic thinking in both political parties.
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People\’s Budget Formally Unveiled Amid GOP Dystopia and Dysfunction
Competing budgets offer a sharp contrast between the progressive vision of a government working to strengthen working families and a conservative vision of government that all but abandons struggling people.
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E.J. Dionne Explains \”Why The Right Went Wrong\” And Birthed Trumpism
In this video interview, the syndicated columnist explains how Donald Trump rose from the ashes of failed conservative ideology, a theme he explores in his latest book.
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Conservatives Turning Their Backs On The Poor
The latest wave of people being cut from the federal food assistance program is the latest chapter in a misguided ideological campaign to \”end welfare as we know it.\”
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Six Critical Issues That The Fox Business GOP Debate Missed
We matched our Platform for People and the Planet that the Campaign for America\’s Future helped release last year and a transcript of the GOP debate. Here\’s what we found.
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\”Bleeding-Heart,\” Or Just Bloody? The GOP Poverty Show
When you hear the rhetoric from the Jack Kemp Foundation\’s \”Expanding Opportunity\” forum Saturday, it pays to watch what conservatives have done to low-income people, not what they say.
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With Latest Budget Deal, More Failure By Design
Government spending is not out of control. It\’s the negative effects of not spending what we should that are threatening to spiral out of control. For conservatives, there is evil genius in all this.
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A Progressive Majority Waiting To Be Convinced Government Can Work
A Pew Research Center survey released Monday is not surprising to those who have followed our Populist Majority polling monitoring project. It shows support for a progressive government, but distrust that it can work.
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Welfare Reform\’s Broken Promises Exposed Again
One of the remarkably few efforts to examine how welfare recipients actually fare once they get back into the workforce uncovers the inconvenient truth behind right-wing rhetoric about aid to low-income people.