economy
Is 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.
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Michigan ‘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.
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Snapshots 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.
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Krugman: 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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New Yorkers protest Bloomberg’s budget cuts
June 12, 2012Public budget hearings gave City Council members and citizens an opportunity to push back against Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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