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Obama Delivers Major Economic Speech Today Halting economic recovery provides backdrop for Obama economic speech. McClatchy: " The speech comes as some economic indicators continue to show only modest rebounds and months before Obama and Republican lawmakers face a...
Obama's Jobs Challenge
Today President Obama will travel to Illinois to turn attention back to jobs and the economy. He does so amid an economy that is still in trouble. Mass unemployment continues its devastating toll. Over 22 million people are in need of full-time work. Wages for...
What Parents Want For Education Policy
A mantra recited by those who pride themselves as adherents to a movement known as "education reform" is that for too long policies governing public schools have favored "the adults" in the system at the expense of children. This rhetoric has framed any objections...
House GOP To Undocumented: You Can Stay, You Just Can't Vote
Republican leaders understand political reality well enough to grasp that they can't survive as the anti-immigrant party. They insist they want to pass some sort of immigration reform, just nothing "comprehensive" with too many "pages." And now they are starting to...
As Manufacturing Jobs Flounder, New Book Has Answers
"Going down to Mississippi wages does not signal a bright future for American economy." - Harold Meyerson President Obama campaigned with a promise to add 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. So far only 13,000 have been added. The AAMeter illulstrates...
Smart Talk On Raising the Minimum Wage – A Day Of Action
The floor is falling out from under workers. The federal minimum wage is not enough for a full-time worker to lift a family of three out of poverty. That is not right. The minimum wage for tipped workers – a miserly $2.13 an hour – hasn’t been raised in two decades....
Money Rules – But In Congress, People Are Supposed To Rule
Wall Street held itself a big fat profit party last week. The nation’s six largest banks reported $23 billion in profits. That’s for one quarter – three months. Pop the Champagne. Buy another Lamborghini. Well, if you’re a Wall Street banker, that is. Not if you’re a...
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Republicans Ready Fresh Hostage-Taking Operation Republicans consider threatening government shutdown over ObamaCare. The Hill: "Senate Republicans, including two members of the leadership, are coalescing around a proposal to block any government funding resolution...
A Federal Bailout For Detroit’s Pensions?
Here's an economic free-association test. Read the following sentence: The federal government should bail out Detroit city worker's pensions so that retirees can be paid in full. Some people will approve of the idea. But others will be shocked or angry. They'll...
ALERT: Student Loan Vote Tuesday. Keep Up The Pressure
Senators are set Tuesday to vote on a terrible student loan deal that would ultimately raise rates to 8.25 percent for undergraduates and 9.5 percent for graduate students. They claim the deal will lower rates from their current point of 6.8 percent, but this is only...
