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Are There GOP Senators Who Will Back The Climate Bill?

By Bill Scher | July 7, 2009

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Much of the talk (including my own) concerning prospects for a Senate clean energy and climate protection bill has been focused on the



Kuttner’s “Debtors’ Prison”: A Much-Needed Brief Against Austerity
 Richard Eskow
05/18/13

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These days the economic news reads like some strange collaboration between John Steinbeck and Eugene Ionesco, a mashup of The Grapes of Wrath and The Bald Soprano. Grim statistics of poverty,…



New Evidence That We Need To Strengthen Social Security, Not Weaken It
 Richard Long
05/17/13

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According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for…



Stop The Obstruction: Help Push Senate For NLRB Confirmations
 Dave Johnson
05/17/13

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The Senate is getting ready to vote on five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). They should confirm the whole package and get the NLRB functioning again. They are also voting…



Rally For Good Jobs in Washington, DC
 Terrance Heath
05/17/13

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For weeks, I’ve been writing that the movement to increase the minimum wage near you. Next week, however, that movement will arrive in my own back yard. Low-wage workers organized by Good Jobs…



Time To Invest In Students, Not Just The Banks [VIDEO]
 Robert Borosage
05/17/13

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Thursday on Bloomberg Television, Robert Borosage made the case for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bank On Student Loan Fairness Act, which would set student loan interest rates at the same rate…