PDA to Congress: ‘Austerity Is Not an Option’
by Pamela Powers Hannley Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) members visited roughly 200 Congressional offices nationwide on May 15 with an urgent message for their representatives: "Austerity is...
View ArticleCNN Poll: Majority Against Obamacare (and more!)
Spending Daily | May 28, 2013 IRS Could Recoup Billions In Unpaid Taxes The Washington Guardian reports, “The Internal Revenue Service can improve its handling of tax examinations and audits, allowing...
View ArticlePDA Calls on Members to Fight Against Food Stamp Cuts
by Pamela Powers Hannley Earlier today, I posted a story about Republicans’ draconian and racist amendment to the Farm Bill that would deny food stamp benefits for ex-convicts– for the rest of their...
View ArticleMisplaced Congressional Priorities: Pork for the Pentagon but Not for Children
by Pamela Powers Hannley During the Bush II Era, excessive deficit spending was no big deal for Republicans. Congressional Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lindsay...
View ArticleDetroit, Europe and Krugman-defined optional austerity
Decreases in annual increases of big government budgets do not “austerity” measures make and are not the reason that the, rightly-named-by-Nobel-Prize-winning-economist Paul Krugman, economic...
View ArticleIn Light of Local Poverty, Tucson Needs Creative Direction & Progressive...
by Pamlea Powers Hannley Business friendly? Tucson’s been there, done that, … and got the t-shirt at Goodwill. As former City Councilwoman Molly McKasson said, we put all of our eggs in the development...
View ArticlePoor People’s Party: Occupy Tucson, PDA, and NNU Celebrate Occupy’s 2nd...
by Pamela Powers Hannley Two years ago, the Occupy Movement– with its simple “We Are the 99%!” message– united the world by enlightening us to the workings of the corporate oligarchy and the...
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