Institute for Policy Studies Care yet? Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change, from the folks at Grist:
Source: www.grist.org
So you're not moved by melting glaciers? Here are a few other reasons to pay attention to climate change, from supermodels to super-hungry rats.
Institute for Policy Studies The Congressional Progressive Caucus asks Obama to meet on Afghanistan: "There’s political space for the president to refuse to increase troops, and growing public support for bringing them home. If the president put his considerable public charisma behind a policy of de-escalation, he could relieve his presidency of a burden that threatens to sink it." Via Firedoglake.
The Seminal » Breaking: Progressive Caucus Requests Meeting with President Obama to Rethink Afghanis
Source: seminal.firedoglake.com
Just another Firedoglake weblog
Institute for Policy Studies Republicans seem entirely unfazed when told, "There's a health care crisis, and the entire country is waiting for you to be responsible and do your duty." These same lawmakers will soon be told, "There's a climate crisis, and the entire world is waiting for you to take your obligations seriously." Will they find this compelling? I suppose time will tell.
Source: www.washingtonmonthly.com
Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
Institute for Policy Studies This is not a moment for another White House gab fest. It's a time for progressive leadership.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
If past Obama White House Summits are any guide, this one will invite a broad cross section of people: trade unionists and deficit hawks, investment bankers and labor economists, industrialists and Republicans; and everyone will speak of the importance of their pet project for job creation. ...
Institute for Policy Studies "Anything that takes it out of the hands of local commercial banks in terms of creating their own (district bank) boards would be a good reform," said Chuck Collins, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal policy organization.
Source: www.mcclatchydc.com
WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Reserve of its authority to regulate banks, ...
Institute for Policy Studies "Farrah Hassen, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, notes that, historically, sanctions have a dismal success rate. In both Iraq and Cuba, they failed to alter the behavior of the targeted governments, but hit the general population hard, making it difficult for civilians to obtain basic supplies and precipitating a humanitarian crisis."
Source: www.truthout.org
President Obama appears hesitant to endorse Congress's push for sanctions against Iran. (Photo Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted from: jamesomalley, erjkprunczyk, mohammadali)
Institute for Policy Studies "I hope people are really clear that this is not an equal-opportunity recession, that it's hurting the weakest," says Dedrick Muhammad. "Generation Recession," from The Nation:
Source: www.thenation.com
Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
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"More than a year after the onset of the financial crisis, three things are apparent: Congress has not passed any financial reform legislation (except for credit card rules); the more time passes, the more Wall Street objects to the prospect of any meaningful controls of its operations; and the legislation that has so ...far progressed in Congress is not commensurate with the scale of the crisis Wall Street caused." From Public Citizen.Read More
Source: citizenvox.org
More than a year after the onset of the financial crisis, three things are apparent: Congress has not passed any financial reform legislation (except for credit card rules); the more time passes, the more ...
Institute for Policy Studies Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sits down with Goldman Sachs: "Forgive me for saying this," I said disingenuously, "but neither of you, as smart as you surely are, is worth 4,000 of my constituents," referring to the difference in the average salary of top executives in the financial sector and the average working person.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
This week I had an opportunity most Americans would relish, just as I did. I was able to unload on two top executives of Goldman Sachs who descended from on high to my office to 'educate' me on bonuses.
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As one of our perceptive Twitter followers noted on the unemployment numbers that came out today, "Aren't U.S. workers too big to fail?" They should be! http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/lo
Source: www.epi.org
This recession, already the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, continued through July with the eighteenth consecutive month of job losses. This report on the labor market covers the Great Recession from its official start in December 2007 through July 2009. ...
Institute for Policy Studies One of our fearless interns heads to a House hearing on Copenhagen and climate change.
Source: www.ips-dc.org
I arrived yesterday morning at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing “Copenhagen and Beyond: Is there a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?” I had hoped that there would be decent discussion ...
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"As the Obama administration's first year draws to a close, we're approaching another historic moment. The world's nations are negotiating a deal to steer the planet away from catastrophic climate change. And by December, if an agreement is reached at a summit in Copenhagen, developed countries like the United States w...ill have to step forward and put binding targets for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions on the table." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11
Source: www.commondreams.org
It's been a year since Barack Obama's historic election as our first African-American president. That night, many Americans shed tears of joy, exchanged congratulatory embraces, and voiced high expectations for real change.
Institute for Policy Studies A look into what our courts have become, by Glenn Greenwald. "Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity."
Source: www.salon.com
It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft(.pdf). ...
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"The resurgent progressive movement needs to think more long-term, come together quickly, and systematically build a Progressive Legislative Exchange to share and hone a steady, perpetual stream of the best, actionable ideas that progressives and liberals, near and far, have to offer for public and private sector probl...em-solving." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-goold
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
The resurgent progressive movement needs to think more long-term, come together quickly, and systematically build a Progressive Legislative Exchange to share the best ideas.
Institute for Policy Studies "Under the pay czar's plan, 73% of the top bailout executives will make more than President Obama."
Source: www.courant.com
When President Obama named a "pay czar" in June, he raised hopes that the era of out-of-control executive pay may be over. Unfortunately, the pay czar's recently released rulings did little to alter a compensation system that was a key cause of the economic crisis. ...
