Vermont is moving closer to single-payer healthcare… “Sen. Peter Galbraith, D-Windham, ran for the state Senate to be able to support a bill setting Vermont on a course toward a more consolidated health care system guaranteeing coverage to every Vermonter, he said Monday. “This is a historic day,” Galbraith declared just before he joined 20 [...]
“The House Republican budget adds $6 trillion to the debt in the next decade yet the GOP is balking at raising the debt limit.”* “The House Republican budget adds $6 trillion to the debt in the next decade yet the GOP is balking at raising the debt limit.”* “The House Republican budget adds $6 trillion [...]
Richard Dawkins, the opening words of Chapter I, “The Anaesthetic of Familiarity,” of Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998) “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who [...]
So, even as CEO pay increased by 27% last year, the middle class has to deal with this: The study then finds that, according to Labor Department projections, fewer than 13 percent of jobs to be created by 2018 will meet the economic security threshold for a single parent with two kids. Forty-three percent of [...]
Republican ideas aren’t bad because I don’t like them. They’re bad because they’re just plain bad. How far to the right have Regressives moved, just since Bush? Read that again: Every single Senate Republican has endorsed a constitutional amendment that would’ve made Ronald Reagan’s fiscal policy unconstitutional. That’s how far to the right the modern [...]