When it comes to the economy, America’s newspapers may be failing their readers. A new report by the National Journal confirms that our major papers have dramatically decreased their coverage of the country’s enormous unemployment problem, while at the same time sharply stepping up their coverage of the important but less immediately urgent problem of [...]
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Here is how our government works as we transition into the post-democracy era. Against the express wishes of The American Majority DC’s elite are getting ready to finalize “trade” treaties designed to move American jobs out of the country. This pits American workers, with their unions and their pensions and their safety protections and environmental [...]
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It really shouldn’t come as a surprise that Republican Senators voted to protect oil subsidies — along with Democrats Mark Begich, Ben Nelson — and Mary Landrieu after getting big money from Big Oil. (How big? See here.) On Tuesday night, Republicans in the Senate filibustered the majority’s attempt to repeal $21 billion in subsidies [...]
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Social Security Is Not a Crisis, But a Choice OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “The main reasons for the long-term shortfall are [...]
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