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Congress Returns To Face Education Funding Issues And ESEA

Education Week | Alyson Klein | Posted 11.06.2011

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Congress returns from its summer recess this week with a full plate of unfinished business on the future of K-12 spending and policy--a tall order in ...

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GOP "Fanatically Determined To Protect The Interests Of The Wealthy"

The Huffington Post | Alex Becker | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted the deficit-cutting frenzy sparked by the need to raise the nation's borrowing limit by Aug. 2 in a ...

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Not Grover: Who's the Progressive Counterpart to Norquist?

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 09.18.2011

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Norquist's unparalleled influence stems from his role as enforcer. Armed with his (in)famous anti-tax pledge, he's the undisputed master of political arm-twisting. No one on the left plays that sort of role.

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It's Basic Economics, Stupid -- Curing the Deficit

Harlan Green | Posted 09.11.2011

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What is holding up agreement of a debt ceiling increase is obvious. Republicans want to continue to shrink the middle class when they won't allow repeal of the Bush tax breaks. They do not understand the most basic economic Law of Supply and Demand.

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Corporate Tax Revenues Are At Historic Lows, Report Says

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as the federal deficit has ballooned, U.S. corporations are paying lower tax bills than ever before, according to one measure. That's the take...

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State Workers Are Retiring In Droves

Daily Finance | Jonathan Berr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many employees of cash-strapped states, such as New Jersey, California and New York, appear headed for the exits -- trying to get out while they still...

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The End of Social Security

Nancy Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Payroll Tax Holiday, Barack Obama, Making Work Pay Tax Credit, Taxes, Social Security, Tax Cuts, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

The fact that the Republican idea of scrapping the payroll tax is being touted as a concession made to the Democrats by the Republicans, shows just how hapless and clueless President Obama and his advisers are.

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A Public Response to Public Sector Woes

Amy B. Dean | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the past thirty years, Republicans have led a relentless assault on government, arguing that we needed to "starve the beast." Now we're in exactly the position they wanted us to be in.

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Cut the Deficit -- Cut Military Spending

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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To reduce a $1.6 trillion shortfall in the 2011 budget, we should cut the contracts of private defense contractors who serve their own profits.

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