From the Center for AmericanProgress: How to Welcome the World’s Best Educated, Boost Economic Growth, and Create Jobs By Marshall Fitz Download the report here. Immigrants who come to the United States to study at our best universities and...
Ramesh, maybe the Center for AmericanProgress meant Obamacare is consistent with moderate Catholicism, as opposed to the extreme positions urged by those crazy Catholicists.
Globe and Mail One in SevenCenter For AmericanProgress… or a cut back in work hours. Even homeowners who avoid default find themselves “upside down,” owing more on their home than the market says it is worth. …Crackdown on mortgage companies looms: Local brokers skeptical tougher rules …Bradenton HeraldTreasury Sticks It To Mortgage ServicersAtlantic...
Globe and Mail One in SevenCenter For AmericanProgress… or a cut back in work hours. Even homeowners who avoid default find themselves “upside down,” owing more on their home than the market says it is worth. …Crackdown on mortgage companies looms: Local brokers skeptical tougher rules …Bradenton HeraldTreasury Sticks It To Mortgage ServicersAtlantic...
The Democratic think tank has released a " fact sheet " explaining how the party's health-care legislation is totally consistent with Catholic teaching as long as you ignore that whole abortion thing. The fact sheet purports to show that the bills reflect the criteria that the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference laid out in a May statement. You'd never guess it from the "fact sheet,"...
Big Government Can't Put Young Americans To Work By Michael Barone December 3, 2009 "What have you done for me lately?" It's a question that voters implicitly ask politicians, especially ones they have supported and who are seeking their votes again. And it's a question that young voters in particular may be asking Barack Obama, whom they supported by a 66 percent to 32 percent...
Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo Source: Center for AmericanProgress Today, the Center for AmericanProgress released a new report, “Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo: How to Get to Zero,” by Ken Gude, Associate Director of the International Rights and Responsibility Program at CAP. The process for closing Guantanamo has not gone [...]
Iran this time. Do sanctions ever work? An email from the Center for AmericanProgress: The House of Representatives is expected to pass "a bill imposing tough new sanctions on Iran before the holiday recess." Americans for Peace Now’s Lara Friedman notes that the bill may also pass the Senate quickly, pointing out that the chamber’s [...]
"Previous analyses have underestimated the potential cost-saving effects of the House and Senate health reform bill, according to a new report co-authored by the Center for AmericanProgress Action Fund and the Commonwealth Fund," Modern Healthcare reports. "The House bill, for example, would reduce the deficit by nearly $459 billion over 10 years, approximately $300 billion...
Our guest blogger is Andrew Light, a Senior Fellow at AmericanProgress specializing in climate, energy, and science policy. He will be leading the CAP delegation in Copenhagen this week. The photo is of Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese chair of the G77 (by Adam Welz). The Guardian reported yesterday that the UN climate meeting [...]
... not seem plausible. And that's because it's not plausible . I refer you to Adam Serwer, of the American Prospect , who's already explored the possibility that KSM might be acquitted and released as a free man and determined those chances to be, "No. Not ever." "They have three sources of authority that would allow him to detain [KSM], one of which is the [Authorization to...
This is a Think Progress repost. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called on the U.S. to urgently address climate change, proposing cap and trade legislation and presenting his policies as a break from the backwards views of the Bush administration, which was reluctant to acknowledge the dangers of manmade greenhouse gas emissions. [...]
Think Progress -- New Childish Republican Obstruction Tactic: Refusing To Use Their Assigned Cards In Order To Delay Votes In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said he saw 60-70 GOP congressmen engaging...
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol David Balto (Center for AmericanProgress) has a posting on the Huffington Post on Getting The Job Done Right: Strengthening The Senate Bill To Fully Protect Competition.
I'm borrowing very liberally from Think Progress for this one. I really don't think this is what voters had in mind when you said you were the Party of Ideas: In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said...