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Jobs Don’t Live Here Anymore

By Tula Connell | August 6, 2009

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The unemployment data is due tomorrow, and it’s likely to be bad, with an expected 300,000 to 320,000 jobs



Fact: Obama Will Cap Carbon
 Bill Scher
06/19/13

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Before the end of the Barack Obama presidency, the EPA will place a cap on carbon pollution from all power plants. This is no longer a mystery. This is happening. And there’s nothing…



The Looting of Detroit
 Richard Eskow
06/19/13

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Nearly 100 years ago two young Detroit girls visited a now-vanished island park that had a dance pavilion, amusement rides, and swimming, and wrote that they were “having fun” on a piece of…



25,000 Sign Declaration Calling For A New Direction In Education Policy
 Jeff Bryant
06/19/13

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As a populist wave of discontent with top-down education mandates continues to sweep the country, more than 25,000 concerned citizens have coalesced behind an Education Declaration to Rebuild…



Reformed to Death: More On the Catastrophic Success of Welfare Reform
 Terrance Heath
06/19/13

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When Paul Ryan first introduced his first “Path to Prosperity” budget proposal, he framed it as an attempt to build upon the “successful” welfare reform of the late 1990s.…



Krugman Discovers Intellectual Property: The 1 Percent Are the Takers
 Dean Baker
06/19/13

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While meandering the streets of Paris, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman apparently awakened to the fact that the assignment of claims to wealth through patents, copyrights, and other forms…