economy
More big cuts in Calif. budget
June 28, 2012After months of negotiation, California Governor Jerry Brown June 27 signed overall legislation for a general fund totaling $95.1 billion.
Read moreIs Obama’s TPP trade deal worse than NAFTA?
June 26, 2012The campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement is picking up steam. TPP FTA is aimed at a tariff-free pacific rim, backed up by an extreme intellectual property rights protection agenda.
Read moreMichigan ‘protect our jobs’ petition passes signature threshold
June 22, 2012Michigan's Protect Our Jobs coalition has gathered more than double the amount of signatures necessary to put a proposed state constitutional amendment enshrining union rights on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Read moreSnapshots of the super rich and the rest of us
June 22, 2012CEO pay at America's seven largest banks averaged 100 times the median U.S. household income in 1989 -- and over 500 times that median in 2007.
Read moreKrugman: Obama flubbed line on economy
June 13, 2012Paul Krugman understands what President Barack Obama was trying to say when he messed up with the line, "The private-sector is doing fine."
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