Medicaid Means Quality Care And American Jobs
Sep 13, 2011Last week, a retired plumber attending Congressman Ryan Paul's town hall meeting in Wisconsin began to speak out about Ryan's proposed budget cuts, which would end Medicare and Medicaid as we know them. The police swiftly grabbed the man, pushed him into the hallway, threw him down and handcuffed him. Though the man asked the cops to be careful ...
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Middle Class Wisconsinites Recall Two Extremist, Anti-Worker Senators
Aug 10, 2011Last night, the people of Wisconsin recalled two state senators, sending a clear message to Republicans everywhere: we won't sit silent when politicians put millionaire tax breaks before middle class jobs. Meanwhile the American people view national Republicans more negatively than ever: six in ten voters have an unfavorable view of the Republican Party, an ...
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Want to Boost the Economy? Don’t Cut Pensions
Jul 25, 2011If it were up to them, Republican lawmakers would have you believe that public pensions are bringing the country down, framing public employees as greedy Americans who retire into wealth on the backs of taxpayers. We've already addressed how these ideas are flat out wrong. Now recent reports argue an additional case for how public pensions benefit the ...
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Get millionaires to pay their fair share
Jul 19, 2011What's the single best idea to jumpstart job creation? While nearly 30 million Americans continue to look for full-time work, life has never been better for America's wealthy. While a janitor in Minneapolis breaks the news to her daughter that mommy lost her job, Verizon sits flush with $24 billion in profits over the past two years ...
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America for Sale: Is Goldman Sachs Buying Your City?
Jun 16, 2011In Chicago, it's the sale of parking meters to the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. In Indiana, it's the sale of the northern toll road to a Spanish and Australian joint venture. In Wisconsin it's public health and food programs, in California it's libraries. It's water treatment plants, schools, toll roads, airports, and power ...
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