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Deeds set to introduce mental health bills
Explains how system failed his son, Gus By Anne Adams HOT SPRINGS — The loss is crushing. A 24-year-old with everything to gain thanks to his multiple talents, Gus Deeds was cherished by his friends and family; he touched everyone around him. “He could have written...
Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped
by Joshua Holland The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations enacted in the public interest. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Back in 1986, when the leaders...
Jennifer Wexton for State Senate
Jobs & the Economy: The legislature needs to spend more time focused on improving our economy and less time on ideological pursuits and divisive social issues. We need to...
A Place at the Table
‘If Another Country Was Doing This To Our Kids, We’d Be At War.’ http://youtu.be/DKOiT1vY7v0 50 Million Americans—1 in 4 children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. A Place at the Table tells the powerful stories of three such Americans, who maintain...
House Memo: How To Simulate Caring About The Unemployed
By Susie Madrak House Republican leaders sent a memo this week to the entire GOP conference with talking points designed to help rank-and-file Republicans show compassion for the unemployed and explain the Republican position on unemployment benefits. In the memo,...
Racism, Sexism, And The 50-Year Campaign To Undermine The War On Poverty
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
DLCC Statement on Virginia Special Election Victories
Democrat wins first of two special elections to decide Senate chamber control WASHINGTON-Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) Executive Director Michael Sargeant released the following statement on tonight's Democratic victories in the special elections...
The Assault on The Pursuit of Happiness
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
GOP’s 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans’ misfortune, drum up fake outrage
by BRIAN BEUTLER A quick look at the House and Senate vote calendars indicates that Congress did not in fact come back into session over the holidays to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which means that as of today (depending on how you count it) millions and millions...
“Rich people don’t create jobs”
a tip-of-the-hat to Frank Dixon Via Business Insider: "As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually...
