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Coalition will battle banks over new consumer protection agency

July 8, 2009 By Susan Webb

“Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen,” Woody Guthrie sang in his 1939 song “Pretty Boy Floyd.” These days an unappetizing alliance of finance companies, banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders...

COMMENTARY: The door to real change is wide open

July 8, 2009 By Sam Webb

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama...

Push begins for new stimulus bill

July 8, 2009

As the reality of a recession far worse than anyone believed it was earlier this year takes hold, labor and its allies are laying the groundwork for another stimulus battle this fall. They are making their...

Health industry lobby buys 350 former government officials

July 7, 2009

The country’s biggest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members, including former members of Congress, in order to influence the health care debate taking place in the nation’s capital,...

Immigrant-bashing ballot measure fails

July 7, 2009

PORT ANGELES, WA.—A far right-wing outfit, Respect Washington (RW), failed to collect enough signatures to qualify their immigrant-bashing initiative for the ballot in Washington State this November. The measure would have required state and local law...