Tag Archives: Middle Class

Brookings Institution: Blog: E.J. Dionne: A Conversation With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Strengthening The Financial Security of America’s Working Families

Brookings Institution: Blog: E.J. Dionne: A Conversation With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Strengthening The Financial Security of America’s Working Families Infrastructure investment, a national energy policy, education and job training for our low-skilled adults and low-income students, immigration reform … Continue reading

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The Week: Opinion- Jeff Spross: ‘President Obama’s Middle-Out Economics is Good, Bottom-Up Economics is Better’

  Source: The Week: Opinion- Jeff Spross: Middle-Out Economics is Good, Bottom-Up Economics is Better I have several questions that I would ask Jeff Spross. Which is why can’t you do both? Why can’t you have policies that improve the middle … Continue reading

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The Week: Jeff Spross: ‘Three Reasons Why Work Requirements For Food Stamps Are a Bad Idea’

“Thanks to an obscure part of the 1996 law that re-worked the country’s welfare system, about one million Americans will probably lose food assistance by the end of 2016. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — colloquially known as food … Continue reading

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New York Daily News: S.E. Cupp: ‘State of The Union a Window Into Obama’s Mind’

Source:New York Daily News What I don’t think that S.E. Cupp gets that is of course President Obama was taking a victory lap last night. Which is his right, because the economy is finally moving and moving well. No longer … Continue reading

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The Open Mind With Richard Heffner- Mario Cuomo- On The Death Penalty and Other Issues (October 12th, 2011)

“Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo discusses his firm belief that the death penalty is wrong and that it is time for American to banish capital punishment.” From The Open Mind With Richard Heffner At risk of insulting Mario Cuomo and … Continue reading

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Bloomberg News: Rip up the Script: Why Canada’s Middle Class Beats America’s

Source:The New Democrat  Strange title for an over two-minute video, two-minutes and seventeen seconds to be precise, that spends only twenty seconds talking about the Canadian middle class. Most of this video was about the decline of the American middle … Continue reading

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The Hoover Institution: Bruce Thornton: Illiberal Liberalism

Source:The New Democrat  Reading right-wingers about people they call “elitist Democrats,” or wine and cheese Democrats, people whom I call wine and cheese progressives, the wing of the Democratic Party that believes that anyone who didn’t graduate from an Ivy … Continue reading

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Washington Examiner: Equal Opportunity Should Be The Goal, Not Equal Outcomes

Source:The New Democrat  In three years this might be the third time I’ve agreed with the Washington Examiner editorial page on anything. And that includes all of their editorial columnists, but I think they hit a home run with today’s … Continue reading

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PBS: Video: NewsHour: Poverty and Politics: How Strong Is Safety Net for Poor Americans?

. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger The perfect debate for the mainstream Left in America to have that Liberals and Progressives should be debating about. The future of the safety net and it exactly … Continue reading

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TruthOut: Ellen Danin: Infrastructure 101, The Evolution of Building Big Things

Source:The New Democrat  Here’s one big issue where I tend to agree with people who are really are the Progressives in the country. Center-left Progressives who are to the Left of me, but definitely still mainstream leftists. And today’s let’s … Continue reading

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