Tom Harkin

Official Resigns After Investigation Involving Former Romney Adviser

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.28.2012

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A member of the National Labor Relations Board resigned quietly over the holiday weekend after investigators found that he had leaked sensitive board ...

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We've Got Your 6

Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 05.21.2012

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The anxiety facing veterans as they return to their communities is matched by an overwhelming sense of uncertainty back home. Our history and our American heritage demonstrated that we are at our best when we overcome adversity together.

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Activists Visit Geithner's Home to Ask "Which Side Are You On?"

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.21.2012

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The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices.

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GOP Anti-Union Measure Fails In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a modest victory for labor groups, a rare measure that would have blocked new federal rules considered favorable to unions failed Tue...

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Senate Bill Targets Multi-Billion Dollar Ad Spending At For-Profit Colleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 04.18.2012

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The rapid growth of for-profit colleges over the past decade has been aided by billion-dollar ad campaigns on daytime television, the Internet and hig...

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Dem Calls For Higher Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Days For All

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Legislation introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Thursday included a litany of measures aimed at boosting income for low-wage worke...

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Harkin, Ryan Spar Over Littlest Learners

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.29.2012

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Even as a growing body of research attests to the importance of early childhood education as an antidote to poverty, the House is preparing to pass a ...

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Will Congress Prevent Student-Loan Interest Rates From Doubling?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

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Spencer Pritchard, a first-year political economics student at University of California, Berkeley, has less control over his professional career than...

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Bipartisan Senate Bill Combats Supreme Court's Age Discrimination Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan Senate bill introduced on Tuesday would restore older workers' rights in the wake of a 2009 Supreme Court decision that mad...

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Senator Planning Early Education Bill To Help Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.08.2012

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When Sen. Tom Harkin asked a panel of education experts at a Thursday Senate committee hearing how they would improve the country's public schools, he...

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WATCH: Democrat Slams Party, President For 'Unravelling' Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Harkin slammed his own president and party for hatching the payroll tax cut deal that is expected to pass Congress Friday, sayi...

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Auction 2012: For-Profit Colleges Triumph With Weaker Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 02.03.2012

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Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. As the Great Recession propelled millions int...

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Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.30.2012

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Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When Washington puts policy on the auction bl...

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Broad Coalition Argues Bills Undercut Brown v. Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.25.2012

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A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, descr...

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10 Years Of No Child Left Behind: Was It Worth It?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.06.2012

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When President George W. Bush joined congressmen John Boehner, George Miller and Edward Kennedy to sign the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, ...

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Dem Senator Calls For Federal Investigation Of Nikki Haley

The State | Adam Bean | Posted 12.23.2011

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U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has called for a federal investigation into “whether Gov. Nikki Haley exploited taxpayer dollars for political purpose...

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Will Obama Embrace 'Robin Hood Tax'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Advocates of a tiny but lucrative tax on financial transactions are increasingly hopeful that President Barack Obama's need to more firm...

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GOP Threatening Middle Class: Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats and labor leaders went on the offensive against anti-union House Republicans Wednesday, accusing GOP members and business grou...

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Crash Tax: Wall Street Reparations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.14.2012

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It's time for Wall Street to pay reparations for the financial collapse it caused. It's time for a crash tax, a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions, the revenues from which would pay for Main Street restoration.

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Costs Of No Child Left Behind Waivers 'Jaw Dropping"

| John Fensterwald | Posted 01.10.2012

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This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. An ambivalent State Board of...

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It's Simple: You're Either For the Bank Tax or You're For the Banks

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.08.2012

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Occupy Wall Street caught on quickly and dramatically, and has already achieved the seemingly impossible by changing the public dialog from what Washington wants to discuss -- deficits -- to what the rest of the country wants to talk about.

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Occupy Wall Street's Message Gains Momentum In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Occupy Wall Street is finding a louder voice in Congress as lawmakers invoked its rhetoric repeatedly Wednesday in attempts to crack dow...

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Tax the One Percent -- Make Wall Street Fund America

Van Jones | Posted 01.02.2012

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A recently proposed Wall Street Tax on financial transactions would cover nearly all of the Super Committee's mandated deficit reductions. So Congress is about to face a telling choice. Will they vote to tax Wall Street gamblers in the 1%?

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Attention Occupy Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.01.2012

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Last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) renewed efforts to enact a financial speculation tax. The Occupy movements across the United States should demand this initiative.

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Education Law Passage Contingent On Outside Political Forces

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.27.2011

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Though getting a sweeping federal education bill out of a Senate committee feels momentous given Congress's heightened partisan atmosphere, Senators T...

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