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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 09:40:03 -0500
From: manager@ourfuture.org
To: rserge1@outlook.com
Subject: Progressive Breakfast: San Francisco Breaks Ground With Retail Worker 'Bill Of Rights'
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MORNING MESSAGE
Dave Johnson
San Francisco Breaks Ground With Retail Worker 'Bill Of Rights'
For six years, Republicans in Washington have blocked almost every effort to improve conditions and wages for working people. Around the country, cities and states are no longer waiting for Washington to act, and are taking things into their own hands. They have passed laws increasing the minimum wage and requiring sick pay for workers. Now San Francisco has passed, and is waiting for the mayor to sign, a groundbreaking law that lets employees know in advance when and where their work shifts will be ... San Francisco has show the way to ending abusive scheduling practices and helping provide a more humane work environment ...
House Republicans meet today to decide immigration strategy. W. Post: "One bill under review, pushed by tea party conservative Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), would attempt to ban the White House from changing immigration laws, and is seen as a largely symbolic effort to curb the president's executive authority … Another proposal, with more implications for government funding, is a long-term comprehensive spending bill with parts related to immigration funding adjusted so that they are only funded for a brief period … Heritage Action CEO Mike Needham warned that conservative activists — and especially 'our 10,000 sentinels' who follow Congress closely — would rally to defund immigration programs in the coming days, shrugging off the advice coming from the party's establishment."
Narrower tax break deal planned after Obama veto threat. Politico: "Lawmakers moved Monday toward a one-year extension of a group of expired tax breaks, ignoring dozens more set to expire at the end of this month. The breaks are a hodgepodge of benefits going mostly to corporations, but they include some for individuals like teachers and commuters. A broader bill that would have ensured at least a two-year extension for all of the breaks fell apart last week after the White House and liberal Democrats said that it handed out free breaks to corporations while ignoring expansion of credits for the working poor."
Will busted deal today mean corporate tax reform tomorrow? The Hill: "Many lawmakers and tax lobbyists are skeptical about the prospects of passing tax reform next year, so fears of Obama working alone to cut a corporate tax deal with Senate Republicans may be overblown. But [a] senior Senate Democratic aide said a corporate tax package will be more likely next year now that Reid's proposal to permanently extend popular business tax breaks favored by Republicans has derailed. The logic is that Senate Republicans will have less of an incentive to pass corporate tax reform if major business tax credits are made permanent this month … [Another] aide suggested that the Senate staffers were seeking cover for failing to get a deal that could get the support of most Democrats…"
Chicago to raise minimum wage to $13. AP: "Chicago is set to become the latest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel fast-tracks a politically popular plan to reach $13 per hour amid his bid for a second term and criticism that he is out-of-touch with working people … [The bill] is expected to get full [city] council approval Tuesday. The mayor moved the meeting up from Dec. 10 following concerns that the Illinois Legislature would bow to business groups and pass a measure this week that would prevent cities from setting their wage higher than the state…"
GOP divided over CBO. NYT: '[Current chief] Doug Elmendorf has been so exceptional, he seems to be trying as hard as possible to give a fair, unbiased review of academic literature on all these issues,' said Michael R. Strain [of] the conservative American Enterprise Institute … Not so, say the most ardent conservatives [who] argue that the budget office should use more 'dynamic scoring' when assessing the cost of tax cuts … Such a change in scorekeeping, based on the supply side theory popular among conservatives, would ease the push to overhaul the tax code and produce an ostensibly balanced budget while lowering top individual and corporate tax rates."
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