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Coalition will battle banks over new consumer protection agency
July 8, 2009“Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen,” Woody Guthrie sang in his 1939 song “Pretty Boy Floyd.” These days an unappetizing alliance of finance companies, banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders...
Read moreCOMMENTARY: The door to real change is wide open
July 8, 2009Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama...
Read morePush begins for new stimulus bill
July 8, 2009As the reality of a recession far worse than anyone believed it was earlier this year takes hold, labor and its allies are laying the groundwork for another stimulus battle this fall. They are making their...
Read moreLabor-backed think tank: Second big stimulus needed to ease worst crash since 1929
July 7, 2009A top economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said today that this month’s jobless figures and other economic indicators show the “urgent need” for “a second stimulus package as large as or even bigger than”...
Read moreHealth industry lobby buys 350 former government officials
July 7, 2009The country’s biggest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members, including former members of Congress, in order to influence the health care debate taking place in the nation’s capital,...
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