Fiscal Commission


Nathan Tabak's picture

Pete Peterson’s Anti-Social Security Talking Points: Coming Soon to Texas Textbooks?

Over the last few months, Texas’ far-right Board of Education has been in the national spotlight as they prepare to debate new, highly ideological textbook standards for high school. more »

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Alex Lawson's picture

Livestreaming the closed door debt commission pt. 2

Last week I livestreamed the first closed door meeting of the president's fiscal commission. I did this out of frustration that we received no response to a letter that we sent from 81 organizations representing over 61 million Americans, asking that all the work of the commission be done in the open. Letters were also sent by Chairman John Conyers and Minority Leader Boehner asking for transparency.

Today is the mandatory spending working group and we will be livestreaming it the whole time (we brought a power cord this time).

This post is part of our ongoing "Virtual Summit on Fiscal and Economic Responsibility for People Who Did Not Wreck The Economy."

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Natale Zimmer's picture

Two Birds with One Stone: Strengthen Social Security and Lower Unemployment at the Same Time

Cross posted from the Huffington Post more »

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