Rising Unemployment Threatens Health Care of Even Those Who Keep Their Jobs
by Dan Childs | ABC News Medical Unit
Last year at this time, health coverage may well have been among the last things on Terri …

by MARTIN KADY II | Politico
Forget the Republican filibuster and the race to 60. The real fight in the next Congress is Democrats vs. themselves.
With nearly complete control of Washington for the first time in …

by: Rick Kepler | t r u t h o u t Perspective
I am an American worker, and you are damn right I want the wealth to be shared and spread. I am talking …

New Report: RECESSION COULD CAUSE LARGE INCREASES IN POVERTY AND PUSH MILLIONS INTO DEEP POVERTY Stimulus Package Should Include Policies to Ameliorate Harshest Effects of Downturn
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Coalition …

by Nicholas Graham | Huffington Post
Barack Obama’s selection of Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services Secretary, as well as “health reform czar,” signals that the incoming president is serious about passing comprehensive healthcare reform. …

by Carl Davidson | Progressives for Obama
American progressives have won a major victory in helping to defeat John McCain and placing Barack Obama in the White House. The far right has been broadly rebuffed, …

(This might be an odd time to writer a letter, but I felt compelled. UHC – we mean it!!!)
by Priceman Cross-posted from Progressive Blue
Hopefully, we will reach the magic number 60 in the Senate, but …

by Robert Dreyfuss | The Nation
A new and growing Sunni resistance movement in Iraq could shatter the false sense of post-surge calm–and it might get Russian support. There’s no question that for the vast …