A group called "Smart Capitalists for American Prosperity," which boasts some of the country's top financiers, business leaders, and investors, is in the nation's capital today to do something that all foreward-thinking citizens should consider doing: Announcing their support for raising the federal minimum wage.   Read more

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This week on the AlterNet Radio Hour, RJ Eskow -- a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and host of The Breakdown -- and Joshua Holland untangle the ugly fiction that half the country are indolent "takers," while half are tax-paying "makers." It's not true -- but what does it mean that a candidate from a major party would suggest that it is? 

Then we're joined by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who explains that it wasn't some dumb movie-trailer that's set much of the "Muslim world" on fire.   Read more

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Tweety goes a visiting.

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Eyebrows were raised after a pair of Univision forums for the two Presidential candidates revealed a modest, quiet crowd for the President and an extremely raucous crowd for his challenger. Turns out, the Romney camp strongarmed the network into allowing them to bus in activists.

Buzzfeed has a long report (emphases are ours):

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Yesterday, the New York Times reported on an alarming new study: researchers have documented that the least educated white Americans are experiencing sharp declines in life expectancy. Between 1990 and 2008, white women without a high school diploma lost a full five years of their lives, while their male counterparts lost three years.   Read more

As of Wednesday, New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) is considering a positive new amendment to its child-care assistance policy, which would exempt survivors of rape and incest from filing child-support claims against absent parents. Current policy dictates that all parents, if they want to receive state funds for child care, must file child-support claims against the other parent.   Read more

Some Members of Congress are more worried about their jobs and their paychecks this campaign season than they are about yours.

President Obama in this morning's weekly address this week blasted Congress—and in most instances   Read more

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