economy
The national debt: Another path is possible!
January 27, 2011Making major cuts in military spending could not only make a major dent in the national debt, but would also save many lives and put our country on the road to a new international policy of...
Read moreLawmaker panel faults “reckless” banks as causing great recession
January 27, 2011According to a federal panel, "reckless" banks and faulty regulators were the chief source of the recent crisis.
Read moreThinking strategically between now and 2012
January 24, 2011With profit margins soaring and capital and labor locked in a deadly, unequal embrace, what are working people to do?
Read moreOn lessons of New Deal, GOP fails miserably
January 22, 2011The New Deal economic recovery programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s showed how to solve economic crises without resorting to war.
Read moreAFL-CIO prez: Labor must reach out to survive
January 21, 2011DETROIT - Saying the labor movement has become too small and too inward-looking to defeat corporate power by itself, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the Auto Workers legislative conference that unions must build wider coalitions to...
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