Remember the fear in 2008? Think of the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Wall Street melting down. Pension savings disappearing. Housing values plunging and foreclosures skyrocketing. Three million workers losing their jobs.
It had all the makings of another Great Depression. As Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, he faced a dilemma. more »
Last weekend was the anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, and Labor Day is this coming weekend. Last weekend Glenn Beck tried to hijack the MLK march anniversary in the name of the far right and their tea-party noisemakers, but we know who has been on our side and who hasn't. Labor has. more »
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