There is new evidence that the economic recovery has been a recovery for only a few at the top. From 2009 to 2011, the top 7 percent of households grew in wealth while the bottom 93 percent of households declined in their net worth. A study released earlier this week by the Pew Research Center [...]
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An estimated 60,000 converged on the Capitol on Wednesday to tell Congress to take legislative action to enact comprehensive and fair immigration reform. To borrow a line from so many of yesterday’s speakers and protesters, “the time is now.” But one group that deserved more time at the rally was undocumented youth, who need measures [...]
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When you’re a student taking out a loan, should the amount of protection you get from fraud differ based on the size of the lender? That is the question the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is about to decide as it draws up new regulations for student loan servicers. If your instinctive answer is “no, it [...]
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The next time your Republican representative says they support the troops, laugh and call them a liar because they obviously don’t care enough to make sure the men and women in the military will be able to afford college. Due to the sequester many branches of the military have cut the tuition assistance program that [...]
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You wouldn’t know it from the shopping list drawn up for the Pentagon by defense hawks in Congress, but we’re long past the days of contending with a global superpower developing weapons that rival our own and flaunting its military might in menacing, destabilizing ways. The Cold War is over, and our Pentagon budget no [...]
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President Obama’s State of the Union address highlighted the importance of keeping medical and scientific research fully funded by the federal government. “Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race,” President Obama said. While the space race has ended for now, the [...]
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Republicans and deficit hawks are out of touch with unmarried women voters, and that is particularly true when it comes to the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester that are due to go into effect Friday. A study released today by Democracy Corps, Women’s Voice, Women Vote Action Fund and the Roosevelt Institute found [...]
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It’s been 13 days since the Campaign for a Fair Settlement challenged President Obama to use the first 100 days of his term to “fix what Wall Street broke.” Though Obama said his policies will, “speed relief to the hardest-hit homeowners,” he has yet to act on many of these demands. The Campaign for a [...]
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