Budget
Texas legislature offers grim solutions
April 29, 2011There's cheerful news, sort of, for those frustrated Texans who have completely given up.
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Budget in context
April 29, 2011What's the budget debate about? Obama put the question of "how to balance the budget" in the context of "what kind of country will we be?"
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Republicans reverse Robin Hood
April 18, 2011The famed Robin Hood and his men fought to take from the rich to help the poor. Today we see the top 2 percent, the rich capitalist class, doing the opposite.
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Students, faculty occupy building to protest cuts
April 14, 2011Students and faculty at California State University in East Bay marched to administration offices, then occupied the building in protest.
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Obama calls for tax hike for the rich
April 13, 2011President Barack Obama laid out a "framework" that he said can reduce the federal budget deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years without slashing social services.
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