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Big Win For South Carolina Teachers As Stephen Colbert Funds $800K Worth Of Grant Requests
Stephen Colbert announced that he plans to fulfill every existing grant request made by SC public school teachers on DonorsChoose.org.
Tagged Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Republicans’ Rule A Death Sentence For 9 Million Disabled Americans
Republicans have shifted their focus slightly away from just killing Americans’ jobs to killing disabled Americans; nearly nine million disabled Americans.
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Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle Class
Even though most Republican governors are wary of going all-in on tax cuts for the rich and corporations like trickle-down failure Kansas governor Sam Brownback, they are going all in to raise taxes on their poor and middle class residents to avoid putting any “financial strain” on their wealthiest donors and their corporations.
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John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs
It was a certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job numbers, as a reason to find new ways to thwart the recovering economy and kill more jobs.
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Republicans Launch an Ad Campaign That Will Help Democrats Win House Seats
The NRCC is accusing Democrats of voting to keep devastating Medicare cuts in place while at the same time accusing them of not voting for Paul Ryan’s budget. You know, the one that turns Medicare into a voucher system.
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Fox News Claims the Economy is Great in Order to Bash President Obama
In an attempt to bash the President over food stamp usage, Fox News claimed that the recession ended four years ago, which is right about when President Obama took office.
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The 12 Lies That Made Mitt Romney’s Debate Performance Pure Fiction
Mitt Romney told outright lies about his record on several occasions – at least 12 times. The day after the debate, the brutal results of presenting a fictional Romney are starting to sink in.
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Romney Admits Tax Plan Is Based on Fox News Lie That 47% of Americans Don’t Pay Taxes
In a secret video, Mitt Romney admitted that the economic rationale for his campaign is the Fox News lie that half of Americans don’t pay taxes.
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A Scared Romney Tries to Drive Wedge Between Obama and Clinton with New Ad
Romney’s new ad accuses Obama of being a big government liberal who is handing welfare checks out willy-nilly, and who has destroyed Bill Clinton’s work reforms to welfare.