December 2011
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Who has the Great Recession hit worst? Children.
The number of American children living in poverty is rising. As the holidays arrive, it’s worth remembering not everyone is as fortunate as you are.
If you can, please help a child this season.
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Yale and Columbia Reimburse Gay Employees for...
Two Ivy League universities will soon begin reimbursing some of its gay and lesbian employees for the extra taxes they incur when their partners are covered by their health insurance…
Heterosexual married couples don’t owe the tax because they are viewed as an economic unit in the eyes of the federal government. But under federal law, employer-provided health benefits for domestic partners are...
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“House Republicans have two words for the American people, and it is not ‘Happy...”
– Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), a Third Way Co-Chair and the longest currently-serving member of Congress. Full statement via @john_dingell
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“This is not poker, this is not a game for the millions of Americans who will...”
– President Obama expressing his frustration today with House Republicans’ refusal to agree to a bipartisan Senate agreement on a payroll tax cut extension. (via TPM)
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House GOP Has Rejected the Payroll-Tax-Cut Deal......
So the House GOP has rejected the Payroll-Tax-Cut deal. Want to know what this means for you or your family? The White House explains what the Payroll-Tax-Cut is, and how ending the tax cut will effect you and middle class America.
Check out the video and calculator here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/economy/jobs/we-cant-wait.
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International Cops on the Front Lines of Fighting...
8 weeks. That’s how long a cop in Afghanistan gets for basic training. Compare that to what a trainee receives in Philadelphia (30 weeks), Baltimore County (27 weeks), or DC (24 weeks). And your average Afghan police officer can’t read at a 1st grade level.
Local police are often the first (and occasionally the last) line of defense against violent extremism in places like Afghanistan. But...
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The GOP's Long and Winding Road
by Bill Schneider (via HuffPo)
Will a long, competitive race between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich give Republicans a boost? Don’t bet on it.
A hard-fought race for a party’s nomination often does the party a lot of good. That was certainly the case for the Democrats in 2008. The spirited race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wasn’t decided until June. Both contenders...
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GOOD Infographic: The World's Leading Innovators
In today’s sluggish economy, the pressure to invent new products and file as many patent applications as possible is greater than ever—both for individual companies and for entire countries, which reap benefits from their citizens’ business success. What does it mean for a country to be innovative, and which nations rank at the top of the list? Check out this fantastic...
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Make Congress Work! →
No Labels is a group of Republicans, Democrats and Independents who want our government to work again. We like their 12-point plan, “Make Congress Work”, aimed to reduce gridlock and hyper-partisanship. Check it out!
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Priming Today's Workers for Tomorrow's Jobs
The economy is changing. In the age of Netflix, no one hires a VCR repairman, and travel agents, typists, and telemarketers are quickly becoming jobs of the past. Looking forward, our nation’s success will increasingly depend on our ability to develop a workforce that has the ability to meet the needs of burgeoning growth industries. In our report, “Priming Today’s Workers for Tomorrow’s Jobs,” we...
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Q3 of 2011 was the best quarter ever for American...
Three good reasons why Congress needs to extend clean energy incentives:
The U.S. solar industry installed a quarterly record for new solar electric capacity in Q3 with 449 MW.
More U.S. solar electric capacity came online in Q3 2011 than all of 2009 combined, and Q4 2011 is predicted to be even larger.
However, the U.S. solar market faces substantial market uncertainty with...
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2011: The Year in Political Cartoons →
Which one is your favorite? We like 12, 13 and 29.
(via The Washington Post)
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“The votes that President Obama needs to cobble together are going to be made up...”
– Third Way’s Lanae Erickson in USA Today on the importance of Independent voters in the upcoming 2012 election.
For more information, read our new report: “Independents Day 2012”
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DC Decoder: Do trade deals boost American... →
dcdecoder:
If you knock oil out of the trade equation, America’s 17 current free trade agreements have created a net $6.5 billion trade surplus - and a $23 billion trade surplus in manufactured goods. That’s according to an analysis by Third Way, a center-left DC think tank, based on federal data…
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What President Obama is Doing to Confront Iran
“So far, the candidates have attacked with a series of broad, vague, and unsubstantiated claims that the U.S. under President Obama is not doing enough. If they have a real critique, they have a responsibility to say what they would do differently.”
Did the Republican candidates get amnesia on Iran? Listening to the debate on Iran sanctions might lead you to think so. Romney,...
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Watch
“Independents are not owned, they’re rented.”
Watch Third Way’s Lanae Erickson, and Matthew Dowd, Bloomberg political analyst and former chief campaign strategist for George W. Bush, talk about our recent findings on independent voters on this morning’s “InsideTrack.”
For more on independent voters, read our report: “Independents Day...
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“If you’re Harry Reid, your options are limited… It really shows how...”
– Third Way’s Josh Freed to E&E News on the lack of progress on energy policy, despite the success of the committees.
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Good News! U.S. Unemployment Fell in November,... →
The Labor Department reported on Friday that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.6 percent in November, the lowest level since March 2009.
The economy added 120,000 new jobs in November, just shy of the 125,000 most economists say the labor market needs to gain to keep the unemployment rate steady. Bringing the rate down a percentage point over a year would take closer to 200,000 new jobs each...
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