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12-year-old Madison Kimrey of Burlington-founded NC Youth Rocks says she is "not a prop," after the North Carolina legislature passed voting restriction laws targeting young people, women, minorities, and the poor. Her speech is a powerful one, and shows that teenagers aren't as dumb as some their representatives claim.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will be one of the keynote speakers at the AFL-CIO 2013 National Convention in Los Angeles from Sept. 8–11. Here are 12 key quotes from her that show why she is a champion of the 99%.

Was Ed Schultz sidelined or did he go willingly? There are conflicting accounts.

TPP is a “trade” agreement between several Pacific-rim countries that is actually about much more than just trade. It will be sold as a trade agreement (because everyone knows that “trade” is good) but much of it appears to be (from what we know) a corporate end-run around things We, the People want to do to reign in the giant corporations — like Wall Street regulation, environmental regulation and corporate taxation.

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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus reveals that Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to black people, brown people, women people and young people.

Mike Lux
Co-founder and CEO, Progressive Strategies
In the first three years of the Clinton White House, there were two memorable budget wars, in 1993 and 1995. The open fights with the Republicans were brutal, highest-of-high stakes white-knuckle showdowns where Clinton’s entire presidency was on the line. Behind the scenes, though, our

By Scott N. Paul
Director, AAM
For millions of Americans, April 15 is a day of dread. Taxes are due, and long lines at the post office beckon.
But in some circles, that date has a whole other meaning entirely. April 15 also happens to be one of the days this year that the Treasury Department releases its semiannual exchange rate report. This is the

Kenneth Quinnell
AFL-CIO

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After “pretending minorities don’t exist” proved a loser, Republicans decided to engage them person to person — or, as that is known on the streets, talkin

By Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The furloughs haven’t much phased in yet, and the economy doesn’t show obvious signs of sequester drag yet.  It’s early, however, and anecdotal signs of trouble (brown shoots?) are showing up, like

Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
This is America, right, and only weasly socialists would question checkbook justice.  After all, if you make a few billion, you’re entitled to be above the law. Right?
And the people who allow you to be above the law are entitled to make their own fortune, as we noted yesterday in

Bill Scher
Online Editor, Campaign for America's Future
This week our federal government effectively shut down the Fung Wah bus company.. Fung Wah had a loyal customer following because it was ridiculously dirt-cheap, $15 on

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future
We all know the banking system is broken. It’s easy to become pessimistic in the face of corporate and political corruption, but the system can be changed. We’ve done it before, and we can do it again.
One pathway to genuine reform is “public banking”: the establishmen

By Jim Hightower
Author, Commentator, America’s Number One PopulistSome consider it un-American to like anything about those &ldq

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Republican obstructionism keeps America backed up and unable to squeeze out the simplest legislation.

Christopher R. Martin Martin
Professor of Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa
It is no surprise to readers of newspapers – or readers of this blog — that newspapers contain little coverage of labor and working-class economic issues. Although I’d hesitate to say there was ever a “golden er

By Dave Johnson
Fellow, Campaign for America's Future
In Washington, austerity-hungry Republicans called the sequester’s “across the board” spending cuts a “victory” — until their districts feel them. Then they complain about the cuts, but still demand cuts somewhere else and add new demands that someone ELSE decide what s

By Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
This morning’s events included a surprising announcement from GOP leaders who’d met over the weekend to discuss budget strategy.
According to an aide present at the weekend retreat, Rep. Paul Ryan, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Co

By Robert Reich
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley
Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support it. Even if the Supreme Court were decide to do nothing about California’s P