Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This in via e-mail from the office of Senator Sherrod Brown: You may have seen a lot of me lately. I’ve been speaking out and setting the record straight on why it’s critical that health care reform legislation includes a public option. And now that the House has passed it, it’s now up to the [...]
WattHead (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thanks to Senator Brown's staff for providing this video of the September briefing on the Hill releasing a paper I co-authored with Avi Zevin and Josh Freed of Third Way's clean energy program, "Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy" (pdf) . Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey joins Matt Bennett and Josh Freed of Third...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Workers would get assistance in upgrading their skills and communities could create good green jobs and build infrastructure under legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate last week. The American Worker and Community Assistance Act (S. 2742), co-sponsored by Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), would provide job training and support to workers and also would help communities adapt...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Senators introduced legislation Thursday to extend COBRA to help unemployed workers and their families with health coverage. WKYC-TV, a NBC affiliate in Ohio, reports. "U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Robert P. Casey (D-PA) introduced a bill Thursday to extend the 'COBRA' subsidy which helps unemployed workers and their families afford temporary health care [coverage].
Brewed Fresh Daily (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Senator Sherrod Brown Joins Blue Green Alliance to Release Clean Energy Manufacturing Recommendations Random Posts RT @valdiskrebs: Buying jobs i… Save NCB: Where is the Greater Cleveland Partnership? Unplugged County Reform Commission Meeting Wednesday BFD Learning Moment: Links
Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I write a lot about the importance of fair trade - specifically, about the significance of making sure our international economic laws do not encourage job outsourcing, labor abuse, environmental degradation and other bad behavior. Often times, these trade issues seem esoteric, abstract, and caught in their a silo that only, say, union workers care about. But nothing could be further from the truth,...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 5. 1. Jon Walker reports on what he correctly calls a "cruel sick joke" - the Republican "health care reform " alternative ." Among other things, "It does not ban insurance companies from refusing to cover pre-existing conditions. It guts state health insurance regulations , and lets insurance...
RetirementRevised (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Legislation extending the federal subsidy of COBRA health insurance benefits was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bill largely mirrors the provision of legislation already introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pennsylvania). The Senate bill was introduced by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Robert Casey (D-Pennsylvania). Click here to read details on [...] Related posts:...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
With more than 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of this recession in December 2007, a new report says developing a clean energy economy in the United States could create some 850,000 new manufacturing jobs. The report , “Building the Clean Energy Assembly Line: How Renewable Energy Can Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing and the American Middle Class,” by the Blue Green...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There was a rare show of bipartisan support on Capitol Hill as senators from both sides of the aisle marveled at a fast-charging electric bus that may be coming soon to a city near you. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and John Ensign (R-Nevada, shown yakking into the mic above) [...]
Naugblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Cleveland.com: And I do have this horrible habit of laughing uproariously whenever a woman my age swears she is constantly mistaken to be her daughter’s sister. Seriously, who says that out loud? Do I laugh because I don’t believe her, or to stifle a homicidal urge? Who knows? Who cares? Ten minutes from now I’ll be [...]
Olbermann Watch (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Olbermann Watch Research Division chuckles every time it hears someone on A-Mess-NBC attacking Fox for being a partisan operation, since we know there are more opposing views aired on any given hour of Hannity or The O'Reilly Factor than you will hear in a month of Edward R Olbermann. Having just finished one such month, here's the proof. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts and tallied...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW) today announced strong support for the 'Trade Enforcement Priorities Act of 2009' (S. 1982) introduced by U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) that would breakdown foreign barriers for exports to help create American jobs. Described as strengthening a trade law provision known as 'Super 301,' the legislation...
Miami Student (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Butler County is receiving nearly $1.9 million from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is looking to create jobs in energy with the allocated funds, according to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded block grants totaling more than $2.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio has been the leading voice in the Senate on the issue of biologics, the expensive drug treatments made from living organisms, and his advocacy for affordable, generic versions of the potentially life-saving drugs will continue once the Senate health care bill hits the floor. The Senate HELP Committee version of the [...]
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