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STUDY: Obamacare Led To Record Drop In Uninsured Young Adults
Thanks to the popular Obamacare provision that extends health insurance coverage to millions of young adults by allowing them to stay on their parents’ insurance until 26 years of age, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control estimates the number of uninsured young adults dropped by one-sixth between 2010 and 2011. This represents [...]
Morning Briefing: Chicago Teachers On Strike
- Chicago’s teachers have gone on strike, after failing to reach an agreement with the district. Among other issues, the teachers want to keep their current level of health benefits and the school district wants to reduce them. - Per student spending is down in most states this year, according to the Center for Budget [...]
Sept. 10 News: Shell Officially Begins Exploratory Oil Drilling In The Arctic Sea
With the ice-free drilling season nearing an end, Shell Oil started its first exploration well in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska on Sunday. [Washington Post] A new paper, released Sunday in Nature Climate Change, has attempted to lay out just how climate stress affects forests, and how serious the consequences of [...]
Econ 101: September 10, 2012
Welcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. A German court this week could rule that Germany is not able to contribute to Europe’s financial rescue fund, dealing a serious [...]
Infographic: The Economic Impact Of The Republican and Democratic Immigration Platforms
At their respective nominating conventions this summer, the Republican and Democratic parties could not have adopted more different platforms on the question of how to deal with the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Show More Summary
Understanding The Human-Caused Arctic Death Spiral
by Dana Nuccitelli, via Skeptical Science The record Arctic sea ice decline this year has predictably and deservedly received a fair amount of media attention. Jonathan Leake of the Sunday Times recently penned an article on the impending sea ice record. The bulk of the article was quite good, but at the end succumbed to [...]
Video Reveals Truth About Smart Grid
by Elisa Wood, via Renewable Energy World We don’t think about energy until something goes wrong, and this week things went wrong on an historic level. As a result, the public and pundits are again focusing on the fragility of big electric grids. Ten percent of the world’s population — more than 600 million people [...]
Interfaith Group Protests Anti-Islam Ads On New York Transit System
A series of anti-Islam ads appeared on public transit in New York and San Francisco last month, and continue to draw criticism for stoking Islamaphobia. On Thursday, a coalition of interfaith religious leaders and community activists protested in White Plains, New York, calling for Metro-North to denounce the ads and donate the revenue to human [...]
Paul Ryan Thinks Near-Nonexistent Inflation Is Too High A Price For Job Growth
On CNBC today, Carl Quintanilla asked vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan if he thought today’s disappointing jobs report would inspire a third round of quantitative easing — the monetary stimulus the Federal Reserve has engaged in off an on since the recession. Ryan replied by saying that the costs of quantitative easing “are clearly outweighing [...]
REPORT: Unions Are Key To Securing LGBT Workplace Equality
Our guest blogger is Crosby Burns, Research Associate for the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. Time and again our nation’s unions have proven key to increasing workers’ wages, helping our economy grow, and building a strong and sustained middle class. In addition to these important benefits, new research from [...]
Even Fox News Is Fed Up With Romney Failing To Provide Details Of His Tax Plan
The Romney campaign has so far refused to clarify which tax deductions and loopholes it would eliminate in order to make its huge proposed tax cut for the rich revenue neutral. Despite repeated requests, the campaign and candidate have refused to budge, content to say that the tax plan “can’t be scored” due to its [...]
Outside Spending Has Already Surpassed Entire 2008 Election Cycle
59 days out from the presidential election, outside groups have already spent more on political ads than the total amount they spent during the 2008 election cycle. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that super PACs, non-profits and other outside groups have poured about $306.2 million into this election cycle as of September 5, outpacing [...]
Canada Closes Embassy In Iran
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird announced that his government will close its embassy in Tehran amid recent attacks on foreign diplomats in Iran, specifically citing an attack on the British embassy there. Baird also said that Iranian diplomats in Canada have five days to leave the country.
Paul Ryan Acknowledges Requesting Federal Money From Program Funded By Obamacare
Earlier this week, the Nation uncovered the fact that Paul Ryan — who has voted with his party to repeal President Obama’s health care law over 30 times — requested Obamacare funds for his Wisconsin district in 2010. However, after the news broke that Ryan sought to fund a new community health center with federal [...]
‘Little Mosque’ Hits Hulu
After six seasons, the CBC hit series Little Mosque on the Prairie finally closed up shop earlier this year, but it’s got a new lease on life on Hulu, which is releasing it as simply Little Mosque. It’s a move I’m excited by, for a lot of different reasons, not least of which is that [...]
Sept. 7 News: Climate Change Makes An Appearance At Political Conventions — But Is It More Than A Cameo?
After being left out in the cold all year, global warming is making a reappearance on the campaign trail. President Obama, who campaigned aggressively in 2008 on the promise of fighting climate change, has barely mentioned the subject during this campaign, despite a summer of record heat and drought and news reports linking such extreme [...]
The Morning Pride: September 7, 2012
Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality. - What has President Obama done for transgender Americans? - [...]
Exclusive Interview With President Obama
JR: Mr. President, I must confess that all these years I was eating lunch at home between blog posts I had no idea you were sitting right next to me. But Clint Eastwood opened my eyes — and ears — and for that I’m grateful. IO: JR: I’m sorry. You’re right. You’re very busy. You [...]
Civil Rights Icon John Lewis: GOP Voter Suppression Laws Are ‘Not Right,’ ‘Not Fair,’ ‘Not Just’
At the DNC Thursday night, civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) recounted his fight for voting rights, the progress made, and the continued threat to ensuring the right to vote for all Americans. Lewis, who still bears scars from beatings in his struggle for racial equality told the DNC audience “we have come too [...]
Attorney General Lisa Madigan Asked If She Can Handle Motherhood & Demanding Job At The Same Time
Working a demanding job? And being a parent? How could Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan possibly handle them both? This was a question from the Chicago Sun-Times who were pressing Madigan about a possible gubernatorial run in 2014 against Governor Pat Quinn. She and her husband, Pat Byrnes, have two children ages four and seven; she [...]