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What the economic conversation needs to be about
June 6, 2010The focus on "fiscal responsibility" conceals the real causes of the crisis, and if we don't address those we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of lifting workers out of the quicksand.
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Behind the employment headlines
June 4, 2010Today's business reports will headline a 431,000 growth in employment during May - but there's one little problem: nearly all were temporary Census jobs.
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NYC: No need for budget cuts; tax the rich
June 3, 2010Reading the news, one could be forgiven for believing the false notion that there is too little money in the state of New York.
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The otherworldly attack on public education
June 3, 2010The crisis in U.S. public education is beginning to read like something out of the theater of the absurd.
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Getting to national health care
June 2, 2010The Affordable Care Act was an important first step, but a first step to where - and when we finally get "there," what is "there" going to look like?
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