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Lawmaker panel faults “reckless” banks as causing great recession

January 27, 2011 By Joe Sims

According to a federal panel, "reckless" banks and faulty regulators were the chief source of the recent crisis.

Thinking strategically between now and 2012

January 24, 2011 By Sam Webb

With profit margins soaring and capital and labor locked in a deadly, unequal embrace, what are working people to do?

On lessons of New Deal, GOP fails miserably

January 22, 2011 By Lou Incognito

The New Deal economic recovery programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s showed how to solve economic crises without resorting to war.

AFL-CIO prez: Labor must reach out to survive

January 21, 2011 By Press Associates

DETROIT - 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...

Michigan governor goes down old, no-solution path

January 20, 2011 By John Rummel

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State address last night showed that his drive to "reinvent" Michigan is neither new nor a balm for this crisis-weary state.