COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY

Student Loan Reform Now

President Obama and the House backed legislation ending the $80 billion scam that subsidizes big banks so they can gouge students on college loans. Now the lobbyists are hell-bent on killing student loan reform in the Senate. The choice is clear: $80 billion for big-bank CEOs or for the middle class to make college affordable.
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ECONOMY FOR ALL

Common Sense On Budgets

Amid the blizzard of statistics, trillion-dollar deficits, howls about impending bankruptcy, and Republican stupocrisy that surround the budget, it is worth repeating a little common sense.

Robert Borosage: "Common Sense on Budgets " | Read more »

PLUS
» Bill Scher & Terrance Heath: "Progressive Breakfast: No Budget Love "
» Isaiah J. Poole: "2011 Federal Budget: Timidity Instead Of Transformation"

EDUCATION

Worker Training: A Bridge
To The New Economy

Many of the jobs of the future will be "middle-skill" jobs that don't need a college education but will need extensive training. In "The Bridge To The New Economy: Worker Training Fills The Gap," a joint project with the National Skills Coalition, we look at the benefits to the nation and to individual states of enlarging federal workforce development programs and ensuring that all workers have access to the education and training they need to prosper.