economy
Relieve the unemployment pain now!
July 14, 2010The reality is that unemployment insurance extension is one of the best things that can be done right now to help the economy. Contact your senators today.
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“Structural” unemployment and the jobs that aren’t coming back
July 14, 2010Is there any hope for the unemployed? Apparently not. Many, says Chrystia Freeland, global editor-in-chief of Reuters news, are people "on the wrong side of history."
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Progressives launch budget fight a year early
July 14, 2010NEW YORK - Though this year's city budget, one of the most austerity-driven in recent memory, has just been completed, a group of City Council members is already preparing for next year's fight.
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Fighting to be reborn
July 14, 2010It wasn't quite "old home week," but attending the U.S. Social Forum last month in Detroit, where I had lived for many years, was special, and thought-provoking.
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Cheers for our side!
July 12, 2010Cheers and jeers: Frogs and workers? Texas turning blue? Republicans going Green? Obama a Communist? and more.
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