Forty percent of Americans now express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. medical system, the third consecutive year confidence has increased since the all-time low of 31% in 2007. Americans’ confidence in HMOs is higher than in recent years but still low, at 19%. Read more at GALLUP.com.
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Breaking: Google and Verizon …
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BREAKING NEWS:
Google and Verizon just announced that they will use their massive lobbying budgets to pressure the FCC to kill Net Neutrality. Their proposal? To allow giant corporations to have a bigger voice than the rest of us by building a new, corporate-controlled fast lane online and leaving the rest of us behind.
Since this afternoon’s announcement, thousands of new people have gone to our website and signed our open letter telling Google: Don’t be evil.
Can you join 300,000 others in signing our open letter to Google? Click here.
This deal is the definition of evil.
It would open the door to outright blocking of political content big corporations don’t like, just as Verizon did recently with text messages from NARAL Pro-choice America. And it would make it much harder for new innovations like the next YouTube to get off the ground.
The Internet would no longer be a level playing field. Instead, Google would create a corporate-controlled Internet for the big guys and crumbs for us.
Today, the PCCC joined Free Press, MoveOn, Credo Action, and ColorOfChange to deliver a first batch of signatures to Google’s DC headquarters — we delivered 300,000 strong.
We’ll make sure Google continues to hear about the increasing number of Internet users who refuse to let big corporations end the Internet as we know it.
Now’s the time for good people to stand up and be counted. Please join our movement to protect the free and open Internet.
Thanks for being a bold progressive,
Jason, Julia, Stephanie, Adam and the rest of the PCCC team
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I am not a “special interest”
Right now, my job — along with those of my colleagues — could be in jeopardy.
I’m a public school teacher in Philadelphia. And, like most states across the country, Pennsylvania is facing some bad budget shortfalls.
Without federal help, a lot of teachers like me — as well as other public servants like police officers and firefighters — will lose their jobs. Maybe you know some of these people. Maybe it’s you.
Democrats in Congress are trying to do the right thing, proposing emergency assistance for states to preserve more than 100,000 jobs like mine. They’re racing back to the Capitol for an emergency session this week to pass this bill and save these jobs.
But Republicans are standing in the way. Minority Leader John Boehner is calling the bill a “payoff” to “special interests” and attacking every Democrat who is fighting for us.
But I’m not a special interest. I’m a teacher.
Can you join me in telling House Democrats that they have our support as they fight for our jobs?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and the entire Democratic Caucus — have decided to rush back to Washington to make sure that hundreds of thousands of workers like me will get to keep our jobs. In addition, the bill will actually create even more job growth by closing tax loopholes for companies that ship American jobs overseas.
But the Republicans are going to do everything they can to prevent this aid.
Please stand with me, in support of Democratic leaders who are standing up for folks like me:
http://my.barackobama.com/MyJob
Thank you,
Wendy C.
Teacher
Ambler, Pennsylvania
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Don’t let Speaker Pelosi sell us out!
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This week, the House is going to vote on a “border protections” measure the Senate pushed through last week. After months of assurances that they stand with us, the politicians in Washington are selling us out to capitalize on a culture of fear. This money can only be used for enforcement – because the $17 billion we’re already spending on enforcement apparently isn’t enough1. It’s not a solution – it’s throwing money at a problem that doesn’t exist. Despite what fearmongering politicians claim, crime along the border is down. Period. We don’t need to spend millions more of our tax dollars on enforcement-only policies. We need real solutions that protect families. Click here to send a fax to Congress:
The $600 million shoehorned through the Senate won’t protect the workers hiding in the shadows in places like Arizona. It won’t stop the raids that break up families. The only thing this money will do is worsen the culture of fear along our border. Tell Congress: stop playing politics with people’s lives. Thank you, 1 Source: America’s Voice |
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