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Robert L. Borosage: Post Partisan Progressives
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In scope and substance, Obama's plan tracks the elements of the Main Street Recovery Program, released by the Campaign for America's Future, and endorsed by over 100 unions, citizen action, women's, environmental and other progressive groups, and some 120 progressive economists. (To see the program, endorse or improve it, go here) ...

Progressive Breakfast: $900 Billion for Main Street
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... rally behind Institute for America's Future's $900 billion, 2-year Main Street Recovery Program, to get our $15 trillion economy back on track. ...

Progressive Breakfast: Whither The Auto Rescue
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... does not ask what aspects people don't support at all. "Transportation infrastructure" may trail "tax cuts for middle- and lower-class Americans" (which only received a plurality of 30%) in order of importance, but that's not the same as having "little" support. Further, WSJ ignored that "More investment in alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar power" scored well, only 9 points behind tax cuts. Newsflash: that's infrastructure too. Our $900B Main Street Recovery Plan includes all of these components, infrastructure ...

Unemployed In America
Firedoglake — ... to address the immediate needs of working families, one that must include extended and expanded UI benefits, fiscal aid for states, significant funds for job-creating infrastructure projects and an expanded food stamp program. Earlier this week, the Institute for America's Future released a report calling for a $900 billion government boost focused on Main Street over the next two years, and we agree with such a plan. ...

Progressive Breakfast: Obstructionist Cowards Try To Kill Economy
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... to increase federal Medicaid spending -- perhaps by more than $40 billion over two years -- and to make a large investment in health information technology. Talks are underway about also adding money to retrain medical workers, extending the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and expanding the law that allows unemployed people to purchase health insurance through a previous employer's plan, known as COBRA." Similar provisions are in the Institute for America's Future Main Street Recovery Program. "Green Dream Team" ...

Progressive Breakfast: Do I Hear $1 Trillion?
LiberalOasis : The Blog — Progressive Breakfast is created for OurFuture.org, and is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Obama May Invest $1T To Revitalize Economy Following the release of Institute for America's Future $900B, 2-year Main Street Recovery Plan as a "floor, not a ceiling," the WSJ reports Obama's economic team is moving in the same direction: With the unemployment rate now expected to hit 9% without aggressive intervention, Obama aides and ...

Bill Scher: Do We Understand How Big The Economic Recovery Plan Is?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Earlier this month, the Institute for America's Future proposed a Main Street Recovery Program of $900 billion in "substantial, strategic, and sustained" investment over two years in infrastructure, clean energy, broadband, health care and education. ...

Progressive Breakfast: Tax Cut Redux?
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... CONTRAST with our $900B Main Street Recovery Program, endorsed by more than 200 economists, labor leaders and progressive organizations: ...