Private GOP civil war exposed by budget deal

Is The Sequester Here To Stay?

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The 99% Two Years After Occupy Wall Street

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Fiscal Challenge Too Big For Weak GOP Leaders

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Rewriting The Effects Of Sequestration On Science

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5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About

5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About: This week, the national media has focused on the three different scandals surrounding the White House, devoting hours of coverage to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improperly targeting conservative groups applying for tax exempt status, the talking points Susan Rice used in the aftermath of the attacks in Benghazi, and the Justice Department’s subpoena of [...]/p

The Real GOP Scandal is Not Being Talked About

3 Ways Sequestration is Taking a Toll on Struggling Americans

Sequestration Batters Schools On Military Bases And Native American Reservations

Sequestration Batters Schools On Military Bases And Native American Reservations: As sequestration went into effect in March, some lawmakers argued that the impact of the cuts would not be as immediate as had been claimed, as they would take place over a matter of years. But there are some areas that felt the impact immediately. One of those is schools on military bases or Native [...]/p

Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women

Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women
"Here is an index of how the sequester spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the United States, by the numbers."

Austerity: Debunked And Destroying Our Economy

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Why Is Austerity A Conservative Reaction To Economic Problems?

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10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock | Alternet

10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock | Alternet
"When we allow our economy to operate below full employment (as now), we are sacrificing trillions of dollars in lost output and income each year. We can never go back and recover it.  It is gone forever.  You’ve seen the debt clock?  Here’s the lost output clock."

How Sequestration Is Devastating Programs That Aid Senior Citizens

How Sequestration Is Devastating Programs That Aid Senior Citizens: Last week, ThinkProgress spoke to directors of Meals on Wheels programs across the country, and they detailed how sequestration is cutting meal delivery and on-site meal services to needy seniors who may now have to go hungry. Since then, stories about sequestration’s harmful cuts to seniors have continued to pour in from across the country. [...]/p

Sequestration Devastates Education Programs, But Congress Fails To Notice

Sequestration Devastates Education Programs, But Congress Fails To Notice: For two months now, Congress has ignored reports about how the sequester is causing kids to be kicked off Head Start and seniors to lose their Meals on Wheels services. But after just a few days of reports that passengers had to wait longer before boarding their flights, Congress rushed to pass a last minute [...]/p

Confronted By Furloughed EPA Worker, Ryan Edits Out His Responsibility For The Sequester

Confronted By Furloughed EPA Worker, Ryan Edits Out His Responsibility For The Sequester: RACINE, WI — At a town hall meeting on Wednesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was confronted by one of the more than 1 million federal workers affected by across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. David Novak, who works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Wisconsin, confronted Ryan over the impact the sequester is having: For [...]/p

Big Oil Profits—and Tax Breaks—Remain High Despite Sequestration Cuts

Big Oil Profits—and Tax Breaks—Remain High Despite Sequestration Cuts: Despite the severe budget cuts facing many middle-class programs, the five biggest oil companies continue to rake in tens of billions of dollars in profits, while still receiving unnecessary and wasteful tax breaks. Middle-class families have gotten some relief at the pump this spring due to declining gasoline prices. AAA reported that U.S. drivers paid [...]/p

Sequester Forces Clinics To Turn Away Cancer Patients

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Budget Cuts Devastate Meals On Wheels: Enrollment Slashed, Services Cancelled | Alternet

Budget Cuts Devastate Meals On Wheels: Enrollment Slashed, Services Cancelled | Alternet
"One such service that may be cut is transporting seniors to the community center, as Meals on Wheels takes precedence. Without it, elderly clients “will go without food,” she said. “This will impact their health. It will impact their quality of life"."

Republican Claims People ‘Want To See More Sequestration, Not Less’

Republican Claims People ‘Want To See More Sequestration, Not Less’: While Congress scrambled to undo sequestration cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration last week after receiving complaints from frustrated travelers, one Republican is shrugging off the impact of the across-the-board cuts in his state: Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) said this week that most people that he’s spoken with in his district support the sequester and [...]/p