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“Larger Deficits, More Inequality”: The House Republicans’ Head Scratching...
Whether you worry about the sluggish recovery, budget deficits, or widening inequality, you should be scratching your head at what the House of Representatives is up to this week. On the one hand, the...
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“What Women Don’t Want”: Paul Ryan’s Budget Deals A Body Blow To Women’s...
You’d have to live under a rock to miss the news on Saturday morning that Mitt Romney has picked Congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate. The announcement immediately kicked up a flurry of...
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“Poor People Don’t Just Disappear”: This Is What Happens When You Rip A Hole...
America’s social safety net, such as it is, has recently come under some scrutiny. Chana Joffe-Walt’s in-depth exploration of the increase in people getting Social Security Disability benefits at NPR...
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“Opportunistic Capitulation”: For The GOP, Spending Cuts For Thee But Not For...
But this time it’s different… How many times have we heard those words – not as an apology for past mistakes but as a justification for one’s current actions? It seems the GOP excels at this...
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“The Eric Cantor Story”: Waste, Fraud, And Abuse
The farm bill was defeated in part because they got fewer yea votes out of Democrats than they were hoping for. This happened, according to moderate Democrat Collin Peterson of Minnesota, because of a...
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“The Stench Of Sulfur”: It’s Time To Call A Satan A Satan
I do not lead a partisan organization, but I do lead a faith-rooted organization that has a long history of speaking out on matters of public concern. Here is why speaking out rather bluntly at this...
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“Republicans Against Reality”: The GOP Has Fallen Victim To Its Own Con Game
Last week House Republicans voted for the 40th time to repeal Obamacare. Like the previous 39 votes, this action will have no effect whatsoever. But it was a stand-in for what Republicans really want...
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“Billionaires’ Row And Welfare Lines”: It’s A Great Time To Be Rich In America
The stock market is hitting record highs. Bank profits have reached their highest levels in years. The market for luxury goods is rebounding. Bloomberg News reported in August, “Sales of homes priced...
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“A War On The Poor”: This Is Now The Central And Defining Issue Of American...
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, has done some surprising things lately. First, he did an end run around his state’s Legislature — controlled by his own party — to proceed with the...
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“Solely An Oppositional Movement”: Why Winning Elections Is The Last Thing...
Keith Humphreys asks a provocative question: Does the Tea Party even want to win elections? This comes up in response to a long article in the National Review by Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry telling...
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“Poverty In America Is Mainstream”: It’s An Issue Of Us, Rather Than An Issue...
Few topics in American society have more myths and stereotypes surrounding them than poverty, misconceptions that distort both our politics and our domestic policy making. They include the notion that...
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“The GOP Anti-Life Syndrome”: Are Politicians Who Cut Food Stamps And Deny...
When Wendy Davis proclaimed that she is “pro-life” – a description long since appropriated by conservatives opposed to abortion rights – the right-wing media practically exploded with indignation. How...
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“It’s Every Man For Himself”: How To Stick It To The Poor, A Congressional...
The 113th Congress has stuck it to the poor at pretty much every opportunity. In fact, if you take all their past and future plans into account, it looks like they have accomplished that rare feat: To...
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“Making The Poor, And The U.S. Poorer Still”: It’s Both Unjust And...
Congress may take up legislation this week to cut food stamps. The Senate passed a bill in June mandating $4 billion in cuts over 10 years; the House version, passed in September, imposes nearly $40...
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“What We Left Behind In 2013″: Americans Shouldn’t Accept The Low Standards...
I think we all breathed a sigh of relief this week when Congress finally did what it was supposed to do and passed a basic budget. Although the budget left many behind, this time there were no...
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“Good Poor, Bad Poor”: Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit
On Sundays, this time of year, my parents would pack a gaggle of us kids into the station wagon for a tour of two Christmas worlds. First, we’d go to the wealthy neighborhoods on a hill — grand Tudor...
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“Just Another Vindictive GOP Governor”: Maine Governor’s Welfare...
Maine governor Paul LePage (R) finally has a smoking gun in his effort to restrict welfare programs — at least according to him. According to a much-hyped study conducted by the state department of...
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“Preserving Welfare For The Rich”: Farm Subsidies Reveal Congressional Double...
Congress has left me confused. Stunned, actually, as well as bewildered, chagrined and slightly depressed. The GOP-dominated House has passed a bill that defies compassion, mathematics and common...
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“America’s ‘We’ Problem”: Being Rich In Today’s America Means Not Having To...
America has a serious “We” problem — as in “Why should we pay for them?” The question is popping up all over the place. It underlies the debate over extending unemployment benefits to the long-term...
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“A Target-Rich Environment”: Meet The Right-Wing Doctor Who Could Cost...
The upcoming U.S. Senate election in North Carolina just got a bit more interesting — and a lot more perilous for Republicans. On Thursday, Republican candidate Greg Brannon received an effusive...
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