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______________________ With word that Six Senators were expressing opposition to putting direct lending in the budget bill reconciliation -- which only requires sixty votes to pass the Senate -- Rep George Miller, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, and...

Senators Webb and Sanders have signed letter urging President Obama to fill empty seats on Federal Reserve Board with nominees who will help balance the Institution. Notably they urge the Pres to find nominees who would break up the big banks, ban usurious interest...

The world's super-duper rich, in the new Forbes magazine count, total just over 1,000 — and hold more wealth than half of humanity. The annual billionaire issue of Forbes magazine, published earlier this week, has a bit of everything. You can thumb these pages,...

After more than a year of closed-door negotiations, the President and other Democrats have finally appropriated a Republican phrase by calling for "an up or down vote" on the resulting health reform legislation. Great idea - so great, in fact, that we should do even...

It is, as Presidente Obama stated, a "no brainer." Cut the $90 billion in subsides that go to banks to make risk free student loans that are GUARANTEED BY THE GOVERNMENT, go to direct lending, and use the money saved to incrase Pell grants and tuition tax credts for...

Senator Sherrod Brown, head of the subcommittee in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve, has written President Obama urging him to use the THREE vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to make the Fed more accountable. Letter and Huff Post report...

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/OASDIbenies.html In December 2008, over 9.3 million people received Social Security disability benefits 9.3 million people with disabilities, their spouses and children 7.4 million disabled workers under the full retirement age 1.9...