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, according to a report by the Center for American Progress. And that is at a time when even before the Great Recession youth unemployment was [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Five Real Scandals Republicans Might Want To Address OurFuture.org’s Bill Scher: “Republican might want to ask themselves: do we really believe there’s any there there? … Meanwhile, there are real scandals out there: festering crises that demand policy solutions and government action. For example: 1. Carbon dioxide atmospheric levels hovering around 400 parts [...]
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Over at The Week, I make the argument that presidential scandal politics usually fail to lift the political prospects of the party outside the White House. No party has reaped a political reward from pushing scandal since Nixon, yet both parties have repeatedly tried. However, short of impeachment or electoral gains, opposition parties may be [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Simpson-Bowles Austerity Gang, Go Home OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “A lot of liberals, like Josh Marshall, are celebrating the fact that the deficit is plummeting so rapidly. But it’s actually going down too quickly, in a way that undercuts long-term stability and growth … ‘Go big or go home,’ bellow Bowles and Simpson, and [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: America’s Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against ‘Reform’ Mandates OurFuture.org’s Jeff Bryant: “… the resistance to top-down education mandates is building. The movement is propelled by forces far greater than what education journalists and policy leaders understand – widespread grievances about inequity, unfairness, and public disempowerment. The revolt is happening. The revolt is [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Lift The Millstone of Student Debt That’s Slowing The Economy OurFuture.org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “… if you or someone you know has had a hard time finding a job or selling a home, part of what you are experiencing is the effect that escalating college costs, combined with the weak employment and income [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Help Elizabeth Warren Get Students the Same Rates as the Big Banks OurFuture.org’s Robert Borosage: “On July 1, interest rates on student loans will double, jumping to 6.8%, according to current law. While the Big Banks are now enjoying interest rates of almost zero. Enter Elizabeth Warren with her first bill as a [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: “60 Minutes” And America’s Billionaires Want Us to Beg OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “’60 Minutes’ was once a shining light of independent journalism. Now it’s a covert mouthpiece for the far-right, anti-government values of the Peterson crowd. Once it spoke to, and for, a majority whose interests it fought to defend. Now it represents [...]
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Earlier this week, I noted that the Republican plan to take the debt limit hostage to demand unspecified tax reform at a future date was too ridiculous to be believed. But that battle plan looks like the Invasion of Normandy compared to the latest Keystone Kops scheme the Republicans floated to Politico today: hold the [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Pass The Warren Student Loan Bill OurFuture.org’s Robert Borosage: “…we are enthusiastically endorsing the first bill introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), which would lower student loan interest rates for one year to 0.75 percent, the same rate at which the government loans money to the banks through the Federal Reserve discount window. [...]
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