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GE, capitalist icon, teams up with Obama – why?

February 8, 2011 By John Case

The addition of General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to the third top Obama administration position on economic policy tells an important tale.

Obama turns up the heat on big business

February 7, 2011 By John Wojcik

The president's speech to the Chamber of Commerce Feb. 7 was much more than the "thaw with business leaders."

Facing benefit cutoff, jobless “99ers” organize

February 7, 2011 By Joelle Fishman

Activists note official unemployment in Connecticut has more than doubled to about 170,000 since 2007, with no sign of improvement. It's a crisis for the entire state and demands emergency attention, they say.

It’s official: jobless rate in January at 9 percent

February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Unemployment dropped in January by .4 percent to 9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. It was the second straight .4 percent monthly decline in the official rate. That was the only good news in...

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.