John Case
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Case
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Labor
Raise the minimum wage
March 28, 2012Despite claims of economic recovery heard recently, median weekly worker income for most months of the past two years, just like most years of the past 35 years, is either flat, or less, than the year...
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Opinion
Foxconn and socialism in China
March 14, 2012How can there be such abuses, and class conflicts, under socialism? Doesn't socialism promise and end to class conflict, and create a classless society?
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Opinion
Is it time to nationalize oil?
March 12, 2012Despite the expected Republican 'who-cares-about-the-truth' talking points, the recent price hikes in oil and gas have nothing to do with President Obama.
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Opinion
What American workers can learn from Greek crisis
February 15, 2012The situation in Greece is not unlike the dilemma facing workers in a multinational-owned factory that seems doomed to being moved overseas.
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U.S.
Pell grants under fire
December 21, 2011The president's emphasis on education means that free or highly subsidized subsidized higher education should be an explicit part of the domestic policy agenda.
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Opinion
GOP blackmail: a view from West Virginia
December 21, 2011It beats me what is really going through the minds of the House Republicans. I am inclined to conclude it's sewage.
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Opinion
Obama in Osawatomie
December 12, 2011The President's speech in Osawatomie was the true "pivot" towards jobs and away from the austerity debates of last summer for which workers, occupy protesters and tens of millions more have been waiting.
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Opinion
Shame on the Supreme Court!
November 17, 2011The anti-democratic, corrupt right-wing majority on the Supreme Court is again laying plans to nullify the election of a Democratic president.
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