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Everything You Need to Know About Fixing Deficits and Jobs

By Dave Johnson On August 15, 2011  

Here is everything you need to know about how to fix the deficits and jobs problems. This is a chart of job creation over the last few years:

There is a report in Saturday’s New York Times, “White House Debates Fight on Economy,” saying the Obama administration is choosing between doing very little [...]

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Free Health Clinic Need Persists Along With Recession

By Tom Sullivan On July 26, 2011  

WISE, VA: A pregnant woman’s water broke as she awaited free dental care at the Wise County, VA fairgrounds on Saturday. She had stood in line in hot and muggy weather with over a thousand others to get a numbered ticket at the 12th annual Remote Area Medical (RAM) Health Expedition. According to RAM staffer, [...]

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An Improving Economy Bad for Women, or a Conservative War on Women?

By Sandi Behrns On March 8, 2011  

Throughout the depths of the recession, there was much to be  said about the disproportionate effect on men’s employment. Women, typically lower paid, and in fields not as hard hit as male-dominated fields like manufacturing and construction, were doing pretty well in comparison. (If  ”doing pretty well” is defined as simply having a job.)

Ah, [...]

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Union-Busting Is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

Like all progressives, we obsess on the quest for good ‘framing’ quite a bit around here (when I lived in DC, even the cabbies and doormen were reading Lakoff).

So, here’s a frame. Over at AlterNet, I have a feature up arguing that labor markets only work when workers can bargain collectively. As it stands, [...]

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