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Toward The Looming US Fiscal Crisis
Lee Hamilton A couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy’s long-term prospects. Not to put ...
Republicans Preach Middle Class Values While Declaring War On Unions — Obama
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT, AT GREATER BOSTON LABOR COUNCIL LABOR DAY BREAKFAST This is a day where we celebrate the grit, the resilience, ...
Labor Day: Bernie Sanders Surges Because He Speaks To Workers’ Demands
Bernie Sanders The Most Important Labor Day since 1872 Labor Day always seems to come too soon. The summer flies by and many people ...
All Progressives Of America Unite: Or We’ll Be Picking Virtual Cotton With The Tea Party And KKK
David koch: he and brother Charles are usurping political control of nation with their billions [Beneath The Spin] I’m just as angry about what ...
Oxfam’s Byanyima Sees Wealth Inequality As Imminent Threat To Global Stability
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International [Comment] As Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International puts it: “We live in a world where the 85 ...
OBAMA: How Increasing Inequality And Declining Mobility Threatens America
Over the last two months, Washington has been dominated by some pretty contentious debates — I think that’s fair to say. And between a ...
A US Congress Aiming To Under-Achieve
House Speaker John Boehner Congressional budget negotiators are moving to meet a December 13 deadline to produce, well, something. For weeks, we’ve been told ...
Reflection On The Execution Of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams: Wake Up Time For African Americans
Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. How many such brainiacs in our communities that never realize their potential? [Beneath The Spin] Lessons From The Archives: A Clarion ...
After Tea Party Defeat, President Obama Must Drive Home More Pro-Job Demands
Tea Party star Senator Cruz. Symbol of hateful politics Adults took over Washington, D.C., and now America can catch its breath after another manufactured ...
John Liu: Republicans Must Stop Playing Games With U.S. And Global Economy
[Government Shutdown] For the sake of the nation, the game playing in Washington has to end. With the Federal government in the second week ...
