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Shorter Media: CBO, What CBO?

By Bill Scher | November 10, 2009

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All summer, traditional media reporters hyperventilated at every preliminary Congressional Budget Office estimate of draft health care bills.



Progressive Breakfast
 Bill Scher
05/20/13

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MORNING MESSAGE: A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work OurFuture.org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “Just in the past decade Congress has cut $1 billion from youth jobs programs,…



A Long Cold Summer For Young People Looking For Work
 Isaiah J. Poole
05/20/13

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I got my first job while I was in high school through a small community organization run by Willie J. Hardy, a community activist (and later D.C. City Council member) who operated out of what…



A Letter From Senator Warren
 Richard Eskow
05/19/13

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The day may come when the worst nightmare a crooked banker or compromised regulator can have begins with the words, “You have a letter from Senator Warren.” But before we get to that,…



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…