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Cuomo budget axe chops health care, education

February 3, 2011 By Dan Margolis

NEW YORK - Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo presented his proposed state budget yesterday, Feb. 1, unveiling huge spending cuts to social services, especially education and health care.

Germany: Scandals for the Baron and a vote for more war

February 2, 2011 By Victor Grossman

A series of scandals scratched the shining image of the scion of conservative Bavarian circles. But the Bundestag once again defied German majority opinion and voted to continue the use of troops in Afghanistan.

Michigan deficit plan: Raise taxes on poor

February 2, 2011 By John Rummel

Going after those on the low end of the economic ladder, Republicans in the Michigan Legislature want to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor.

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.

Hire the unemployed to meet the snow emergency

February 2, 2011 By Jarvis Tyner

It’s time to hire the unemployed at union wages - start with laid off public workers - and help save lives and clean up this mess.