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Jobs Crisis: 'Ongoing Train Wreck' State Jobs Numbers Show Sluggish Growth (EPI): "July 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics state employment data ... echoes the national employment data for July, with continued but very slow employment growth and an economic recovery so...
What’s Driving America’s Flagging Vital Signs?
Let’s talk life expectancy. The stats first. They tell a shocking story: Americans now live shorter lives than men and women in most of the rest of the developed world. And that gap is growing.
Buying Congress People Isn't Paying Off For Big Business.
It turns out that Republican obstructionism is quite costly for big business. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn't getting much return for the $69.5 million dollars they invested in Republican candidates in the last two elections.
Defining Terrorism Down
Apparently, in the eyes of the UK government, anyone living with a journalist whose stories reveal embarrassing information about the government are subject to interrogation and the seizure of their electronic equipment under terrorism laws.
Progressive Breakfast
Detroit Has Just Begun To Fight Braced to Remake Itself, Detroit First Awaits Challenges to Bankruptcy Eligibility [NY Times]: "Before Detroit can start remaking itself in bankruptcy court, there is a basic question that stands in its way: Does it even qualify? That...
Dream Defenders: Leaving The Capitol, Not The Fight
The Dream Defenders have ended their 31-day occupation of the Florida state capitol. But don't think for a minute that they are going away. They leave vowing to fight "as long as it takes."
Oh, won't somebody please think of Mitt Romney?!
The bankers, billionaires, and wealthy elite are losing one of their favorite offshore tax havens. The Cayman Islands has finally agreed to cooperate with the U.S., and make it more difficult for the wealthy to stash money overseas.
America Deserves A Solar Manufacturing Industry
America used to have a thriving computer-chip manufacturing industry. Now China does that. America deserves to have a solar manufacturing industry, even if the "serious people" say this should end up in China, too. This is about jobs.
Will House Republicans Govern Or Destroy The Government They Hate?
The parents of the Republican Party are away for the summer and the Tea-nagers are ransacking the House. But is it really a surprise that people who hate government itself would act to destroy government itself?
Progressive Breakfast
Can Republicans Govern? "Three interlocking fiscal disputes" raise prospect of shutdown or debt limit breach, reports NYT: "Perhaps easiest to resolve is the effort by some conservative Republicans to eliminate financing for the new health care law in return for...
