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Cutting Government Creates Jobs Like Cutting Taxes Increases Revenue

By Dave Johnson On March 18, 2011  

A “report” from Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee says that the path to job creation is cutting … the very things that create jobs. This is like saying that cutting taxes increases revenue. We know how that worked out, and the job-consequences of budget cuts are going to be just as [...]

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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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