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Economic Stimulus

Doing What Works for the Short and Long Term

Dean Garfield | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

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Dean Garfield

Congress should be commended for passing a plan that has the potential to be stimulative as well as smart. Investments in IT will help lead the way to economic recovery.

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Fighting the New Deal All Over Again

Kim Phillips-Fein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Kim Phillips-Fein

As the idea of the New Deal comes back in style, so does opposition to the vision of activist government.

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GOP Dogma Clouds Recovery Act Debate

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Jeffrey Feldman

The idea the Republicans want us to believe the "economy" only includes for-profit businesses. Anything that involves investment in public agencies is, therefore, not the economy.

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How The Centrist Blue Dog Caucus Got So Much Power

The Nation | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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The House of Representatives is a body that produces few stars, but Jim Cooper of Tennessee is a household name inside the Beltway. David Brooks has c...

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Lieberman Will Walk To Work For Sabbath Stimulus Vote

AFP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Independent US Senator Joseph Lieberman, an observant Jew, planned to walk to and from any vote on the titantic economic stimulus plan that falls on t...

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Al Sharpton Criticizes Democrats For "Diluting" Stimulus Bill

AP | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized Democrats on Wednesday for "diluting" education portions of the economic stimulus bill in orde...

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The Best Thing for the Economy, the Right Thing for the Poor

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

The stars have now aligned in the midst of this economic crisis, and it is precisely the time to address the urgent issues of poverty in America.

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Media Failure: During Stimulus Debate, Only 5 Percent Of Guests Were Economists

Media Matters | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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In the hour following President Obama's February 9 press conference -- during which he gave a brief address about the economic recovery legislation cu...

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A "Stimulating" Evening Attending an Economic Recovery House Event

Paula B. Mays | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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Paula B. Mays

To gather support for his stimulus bill, Obama requested that citizens attend various house meetings last weekend to discuss the plan. I attended one such event in Northern Virginia.

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Immigrant Groups Fighting Stimulus Provision

Washington Independent | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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Among the many provisions of the $800-plus billion stimulus bill hotly debated and horse-traded behind closed doors, one that remained largely under t...

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Keep the Stimulus Package Green, and Save Old Forests

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green

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Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

Why is the government investing potentially as much as $50 billion in loans toward the nuclear power industry, while investing only half of that towards solar and wind power?

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Can't Get There from Here

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.

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It's Time for Obama to Potty Train Congressional Republicans

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Obama can act like Community-Organizer-In-Chief and, along with grassroots movements from around the country, force Senate Republicans to allow the majority to vote on, and pass, an improved Stimulus Bill.

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GOP Group Threatens To Campaign Against Republican Stimulus Backers

Fox News | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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A GOP group is putting Republican lawmakers "on notice," threatening to campaign against anyone who breaks ranks to vote for the more than $800 billio...

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House vs. Senate Stimulus Bills

ProPublica | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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ProPublica

Some highlights: The House version would spend $60 billion more on education -- the Senate version adds more than $100 billion for tax cuts to individuals and families.

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Republicans Build a Roadblock to Nowhere

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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Robert J. Elisberg

Republicans stand near-united to fight the President of the United States out of one side of their mouths - and cry for bi-partisanship out of the other.

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Stimulating

Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

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Zachary Karabell

As muddled as this economic stage may be -- and all major measures taken in crisis usually are -- it is born of the drive to reconstruct and not profiteer, and that alone is progress to applaud.

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Obama and The Economy: How It's Going to Play Out

Ian Welsh | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Ian Welsh

The only people in this debacle who acted in the interests of ordinary Americans are House Democrats, but in the end they're going to be forced to choose between no bill and a fatally compromised bill.

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Bipartisanship Fetishism vs. What's Best for America: Obama Needs to Choose

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

When Galileo became convinced of the truth about how the solar system works, he didn't decide to just split the difference with the Pope so he could get a few nice editorials about "common ground" and "working together." Obama needs to stop trying to appease the bipartisanship fetishists. READ MORE Why is Obama Reluctant to Kill the Zombie Banks Threatening Our Economy? The plan laid out -- or, more accurately, sketched out -- by Tim Geithner makes it very clear that he is on the wrong side of the issue, more worried about the banking industry than the American people. Like Hank Paulson before him, Geithner appears more concerned about saving particular banks than saving the banking system. READ MORE

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Oh, About That "End" of the Obama Honeymoon ...

William Bradley | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media

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William Bradley

Where Obama may have made a mistake is in being too substantively accommodating with people who are basically not going to support him except in the event of an extraterrestrial invasion.

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Republicans Say They'd Support the "Right" Stimulus Bill, But Stimulus for Them Is Only More Tax Cuts

Mitchell Bard | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

If you look closely at what the Republicans are saying, this isn't a debate on the merits of this stimulus legislation, but rather another round of policy battles fought during last year's campaign.

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Just imagine: What if McCain Had Won the Election and Obama had Shafted him During the Stimulus Debate?

John Amato | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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John Amato

Um, are McCain's feelings after losing an election the big question on people's minds in the nation? I think the stimulus package is the focus of the country right now, don't you?

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Lieberman: Republican Moderates Deserve "Congressional Medal Of Honor" For Stimulus Cuts

Think Progress | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Today in his town hall address in Elkhart, IN, President Obama criticized heavy cuts to education funding in the Senate's economic recovery package cr...

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Patriotic Extortion

Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Imagine if the Democrats had not pre-capitulated to the Republicans on the stimulus bill. Imagine if they had forced the Republicans to actually mount a filibuster.

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5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

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Jeffrey Sachs

The claim that we should reject infrastructure spending is disastrously wrongheaded. We need a buildup of serious high-return public investments, and we can and should start now.

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