Spain Legalizes Same Sex Marriage - Joining Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands, Spain has legalized gay marriage. And closer to home, California Grants Gays Many Benefits...
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Brewing GOP Civil War on Immigration - No issue is potentially more explosive for the GOP than immigration, where core constituencies of the conservative movement are ready...
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World's Poor Lowest Priority - Morals are not about abstract "social issues." They are what you do when faced with choices, what you do when...
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Carl Pope Fires Back - The debate over the future of environmentalism is heating up! Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, has written...
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December 16, 2004
I Iz Not Working - The government can't do anything right, right? Especially not those lazy union bureaucratic teachers in public schools -- charter schools...
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It's Good to be A New Yorker - Tina Brown on the Kerik fiasco: It turns out that all that Capitol Hill huffing and puffing for three weeks...
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Death of Environmentalism? - Right after the election, SEIU set off a passionate debate over the future of the labor movement (see the latest...
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December 09, 2004
Guest Bloggers - So I'm off to Thailand for a couple of weeks, so in my stead I'll have two guest bloggers to...
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December 08, 2004
Workers of the World Uniting - It's an irresistable title but even the business-oriented Financial Times has to sit up and take notice as historically parochial...
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December 07, 2004
NY To Hike Min Wage to $7.15/hr - Overriding a veto by Governor Pataki, the state Senate in New York voted to raise the state minimum wage to...
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December 05, 2004
New Medicare Law a Killer? - It's complicated, inadequate and an attempt to begin the privatization of Medicare. But will the new Medicare bill also be...
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December 03, 2004
Why Can't SS Benefits Rise w Wages? - So the Bush administration is starting to admit that social security privatization means cuts in benefits. But they are also...
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December 01, 2004
More on Military Recruiting Case - Sam Heldman-- who filed amicus briefs in the military recruiting case responds to my post with a few interesting comments....
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AMT is Solution Not Problem - When people talk about tax issues, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) -- the tax designed to make sure that 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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