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Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., continued his crusade for defense spending cuts at the Take Back the American Dream conference on Monday, calling on participants to pressure a congressional deficit-reduction “super committee” to focus all of its spending reductions on the military budget. In the video above, he offers a typically blunt explanation of why he […]
If there was one message that united the various speeches that launched the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, it was perhaps summed up by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who gave a post-lunch talk that was as potent as a can of Red Bull. What’s worse than the conservative penchant for the […]
House conservatives today threw another grenade today in their war on workers and the institutions designed to protect worker rights. They also continued to show their willingness to politically interfere in an administrative law process to impose their ideology and protect their political contributors. Legislation passed by the House would prevent the National Labor Relations […]
No one knows why a group of about 10 teenagers surrounded Trell Thomas at a bus stop in downtown Washington earlier this month and beat him so badly that his jaw was broken, causing permanent damage. But Trell has given a lot of thought about how to respond to the climate in Washington and other […]
Progressive activists are accustomed to raising the bull-droppings deflection shield whenever a conservative utters a sentence containing the words “job creators.” We know what’s coming—and there’s a lot of it. Just in the 24-hour period between Thursday afternoon and this afternoon, 54,600 new mentions of the phrase “job creators” were added to Google’s search engine. […]
President Obama’s address today on taxes and deficit reduction draws the broad contours of the economic reform argument exactly as they should be drawn, between a plan that calls for “shared sacrifice” to be actually shared by all rather than imposed on the economically struggling, and the conservative effort to shield millionaires and billionaires from […]
“America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home,” President Obama said in his nationwide address on Wednesday, as he announced a plan to withdraw our forces from Afghanistan “at a steady pace” between now and 2014. In his speech, the president set the right direction and tone, but not the right […]
Former Wall Street trader and analyst Henry Blodget asks a prescient question about tax rates in his column at Business Insider: “Do low tax rates on rich people actually ruin the economy?” He doesn’t answer the question, but he makes an observation that points to a “yes” answer: “Some of the most prosperous periods in […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., today introduced a bill that, if passed by Congress and signed by the president, would insure Social Security’s solvency for the next 75 years—without having to cut a single person’s benefit. Sanders’ solution is simple: gradually eliminate the cap on wages subject to the payroll tax, starting with people earning more […]
The Census Bureau reports that the percentage of people living in poverty in the U.S. is at its highest level in almost two decades. But not to worry, says the conservative Heritage Foundation: Poor people are doing just fine: Few of the 46.2 million people identified by the Census Bureau as being “in poverty” are […]