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Republicans Criticize Government Spending Unless It Lowers Our Wages
Republicans criticize government spending when it is about making our lives better. Of course, by definition all government spending is done to make our lives better. (In a democracy government...
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Fast-Food Worker Strike: “To Proclaim Themselves Fully Human.”
Watch this opening from today’s All-In With Chris Hayes. Seriously, you might even tear up like I did. I’m talking about his opening monologue about the Thursday fast-food strike in NY, and what this...
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Today’s One-Two Punch Of Jobs And Cuts
Today’s news was a one-two punch in the gut for the middle class. First, a terrible jobs report, then a Democratic President offers a budget that proposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The...
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Obama’s Budget: What He Gets Right
President Obama’s budget proposal is officially released into the wild. The president and the media are talking a lot about what the budget’s deficit reductions offer to satisfy the priorities of the...
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Republicans Try To Nullify NLRB And Labor Law
The corporate/conservative effort to gut the country’s labor-law enforcement continues at full steam. Senate Republicans are blocking NLRB Board confirmations. Republican judges blocked the the...
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Elite-Pundit Deficit Frenzy Just Like “Run Up” To Iraq War
The “Grand Bargain” is about showing the world that we can hurt people, so they will know we are “serious.” Reading Jason Linkins’ HuffPo account of elite-pundit thinking about the “Grand Bargain,”...
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Check Out The ‘Executive PayWatch’ Site
Take a look at the 2013 Edition of the website called Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site, active since 1997, helps drive awareness of the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average...
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A Middle-Class Anthem: Good-Paying Green Jobs
“Tell me I’m your national anthem.” That was the theme of the hundreds of environmentalists and labor union members gathered today at the BlueGreen Alliance’s annual conference in Washington. They...
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Sinking American Electorate: Unmarried Women On The Edge
As millions of Americans raced to the post office this week to mail in their taxes, we were reminded that April is, indeed, the cruelest month. It’s cruel because the sagging economy continues to...
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Minimum Wage Raise Essential To Fix Our Economy
The Walton (Walmart) heirs now have as much wealth as up to 40 percent of all Americans combined, and Walmart’s sales have been slowing down. What does the first fact have to do with the second?...
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Deficit Falling Even More Dramatically, Few Know It
Austerity is beginning to hit and the economy is slowing as a result. The most immediate effect is that flights are delayed, but unemployment checks are smaller and there are fewer things We the...
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Does Minimum Wage Cost Jobs?
A quick point on whether the minimum wage “costs jobs.” An op-ed in today’s San Jose Mercury News, Minimum wage: Credible studies show raising it costs jobs says, The usual corporate nonsense, the...
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What Does It Mean To Be An “American” Corporation?
What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American corporation? An article in the Wall Street Journal the other day should trigger questions like these. WSJ: Domestic-Based...
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Deficit Falling, Austerity Discredited But Destructive Sequester Continues
The deficit is already down by half. The intellectual foundation for austerity turned out to be a spreadsheet error combined with cherrypicked data. In Europe austerity has brought nothing but...
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The Economy Is Defining “Middle Class” Down
In the wake of the Great Recession, the majority of Americans continue to suffer and struggle to remain afloat, and the very definition of what it means to be middle-class is being redefined downward....
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Repeal the Sequester: It is Dumb and Damaging
“Spending cuts hold back US growth,” warns an across the page headline of the conservative Financial Times. No surprise there. Americans are in trouble. Wages are losing ground. Over 20 million need...
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Sequester Closes Cancer Clinic Doors, Congress Does Nothing
Affluent business flyers inconvenienced by delays = national emergency that Congress immediately fixes. Cancer clinics closing = Congress does squat, goes home. This is just one more story of our...
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Deficit Under Control. Cuts Hurt Economy And Jobs. Republicans Demand More...
All of the original justifications for budget cuts have gone away. The sequester is hurting the economy and keeping unemployment high. But instead Republicans plan to double down on cuts. Apparently...
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March Trade Deficit Better — Why This Matters More Than Budget Deficit
The trade deficit fell to “only” $38.8 billion in March. This could mean that manufacturing is starting to shift from China (good) — or it could mean our economy is slowing and we just aren’t buying...
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Zero Manufacturing Jobs Added. Zero.
President Obama set a goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. Last month we added zero. Not one. Nada. Zip. We did add low-wage jobs, though. Maybe we can talk about a national...
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