MoveOn - Kerry's Still the One - While Dean won the Moveon "primary", the results confirmed my sense that Kerry will end up with the most broadbased...
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How Unions Help Low-Income Workers - Read this article on how unionizing janitors has helped a large section of this low-wage, uninsured workforce gain living wages...
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June 25, 2003
Why MoveOn matters - Forget the result of the primary voting, likely to be distorted by attempts to jimmy the results. But you can...
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June 23, 2003
How 401Ks are Bankrupting US - Forget Bush's cuts in tax rates or even the cuts in dividend taxes-- those are short-term and can be reversed...
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Remarkable Photo - A picture of the casualties of American bombing, only remarkable because it appears on the cover of a US...
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June 20, 2003
Freepers Stuffing Moveon Ballot Box - Internet activism such as the Moveon.org primary is nice, but this post by a member of FreeRepublic.com shows the problem...
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Why Judicial Review is Bad - One more round on my personal hobbyhorse, but I think it's crucial for progressives to recognize why their attachment to...
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June 19, 2003
Bush's Fiscal Mismanagement - But it's actually far worse than it looks when you put it in historical perspective. Many people know that...
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Who is in Unions - More in response to Kevin. There is a stereotype that unions organize richer workers. Which misses the point that unions...
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Consistency on Gay Rights? - Libertarian Clint Bolick notes the inconsistency of liberals and conservatives on the "gays in the Boy Scouts" case a few...
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Where's the Jobs? - The wondrous effects of the Bush tax cuts seem not to have impressed employers. According to a Manpower survey, hiring...
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June 16, 2003
Pigs at the Iraqi Trough - A bit of colorful detail on all the "middlemen" cashing in on Iraqi contracts, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal....
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Bush Cuts Aid to College Education - The best way to measure Bush's policies is to see what he does with executive orders and administrative decisions, places...
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June 12, 2003
Copyright is Killing Old Films - How's this for a system. Absentee owners let their unique cultural property rot, while the law prevents other people from...
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June 11, 2003
Preempting State Drivers Licensing - Again, so much for federalism. Now Ashcroft and company are talking about taking over regulation of driver's licenses, mostly in...
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Comments Not Working - Okay-- this is just odd. Comments to old posts (of over a month) seem to get posted mostly okay --...
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Lies and Unemployment Stats - I have to do more research on this one, but apparently Bush's Department of Labor is systematically cooking the books...
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Blackmail on Child Tax Credit - The GOP are just disgusting. They write a bill to help their wealthy friends and deliberately leave the working poor...
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Flexibility Equals Patronage at DOD - The Defense Department wants to "reshape" the DoD personnel system, meaning giving greater flexibility to hire, fire, promote and give...
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June 04, 2003
Wolfowitz: It Was All About the Oil - From the Guardian The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons...
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Delay's Deception on Tax Credit - As Democrats demand a vote on giving the working poor the same child tax credit as middle class families, the...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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