If, like me, you’re a working parent or any other adult struggling to balance the demands of work and family, you know the two biggest challenges to pulling off that balancing act: Time and Money. We never have enough of either, and have precious little control over what we do have. Now, House Republicans have [...]
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Adam Lanza. James Holmes. Jared Lee Loughner. Seung-Hui Cho. These names instantly bring to mind some of the worse mass shooting massacres of the last decade or so. But they have something else in common. In addition to reviving calls for stronger gun control legislation, their heinous acts also turned America’s attention to dismal state [...]
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Reports of austerity’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Yes, austerity has been on the ropes recently, since it was revealed the whole thing was based on a sloppy spreadsheet by a couple of academic austerians. Before that the IMF denounced and even apologized for advocating austerity that shrunk economies all over Europe. The U.S. has avoided [...]
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On Wednesday, hundreds of minimum wage fast food and retail workers from dozens of stores all over Chicago walked off their jobs. Three weeks ago, hundreds of minimum wage workers in New York City walked off their jobs. From New York City to Chicago, minimum wage workers are standing up, standing together to make one [...]
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Here’s one consequence of sequestration that you don’t (and won’t) hear many Republicans complaining about: the IRS has furloughed more than 89,000 employees, due to the sequester.
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Morning Message: School-to-Prison Pipeline: Wrong Lessons From Sandy Hook OurFuture.org’s Jeff Bryant: “By now, there have been plenty of negative reactions to last week’s defeat of sensible gun regulation in the U.S. Senate due to the power of the gun lobby to have more sway with senators than popular opinion has. …The quick take on this [...]
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Here’s one for the “We Told You So, Republicans” file. As it turns out, when you cut government spending arbitrarily and across-the-board it can affect things that your care about and rely on. If you do a lot of flying say between Washington, DC and home, that means you can expect lots of flight delays. [...]
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Do you want to know what sequestration looks like on the ground, and where the real casualties will be found? Look to West, Texas, where an explosion at a fertilizer plant has claimed as many as 40 lives, injured more than 200, leveled entire neighborhoods, and driven residents of the small town from their homes [...]
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The “rebranding” of the Republican party crashed headlong into reality again yesterday. The setting was Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill. The occasion was a FreedomWorks’ rally for the purpose of introducing what FreedomWorks is calling its “New Fair Deal.” I was assigned to cover the rally, and what I there illustrated why the odds [...]
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In 2012, the GOP’s version of “reality” ran headlong into actual reality — both electoral and otherwise. The collision shattered may Republicans’ perception of reality, and lead to current efforts to “rebrand” the party to appeal to the emerging electorate. That’s difficult enough for a party that’s spent the last few elections vilifying members of [...]
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