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Top Five Lines From Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address
Monday's speech was full of hope, and a pointed rejection of the worldview of his 2012 opponent, Mitt Romney.
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GOP Stunt on Debt Ceiling Is Total Surrender to White House
The House GOP plan is nothing less than total capitulation to the Obama administration.
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Ownership, Full Employment and Community Economic Stability
The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
Responding to Financial Crisis: Are Austerity and Suffering Inevitable?
The idea that suffering for an economy is inevitable is repeated so often that it is now taken as received wisdom by policy makers and civil society alike, yet …
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Resisting Racism and Militarism in 2013
The time is so late, the danger so great, that I call upon all the forces which believe in peace to take a lesson from the labor movement, the …
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How the Walmart Labor Struggle Is Going Global
What started as a warehouse workers' strike in California late last year has grown into a global struggle against the world's largest private employer.
Six Economic Steps to a Better Life and Real Prosperity for All
We've got to break out of the old ways of thinking about the economy.
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Mr. President, Put Our Spending Priorities in Order
Dear Mr. President, As you begin your second term in office this week, we hope you will let the US public in on one of Washington's best-kept open secrets: …
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Japan’s Fiscal Stimulus: Yes, There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
Sometimes there is a free lunch for countries suffering from unemployment and in some cases, recession.
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In MLK Award Acceptance Speech at WI Capitol, Woman Gives Gov Walker Hell to His Face
In Wisconsin, Dr. Margaret Rozga accepted the MLK 2013 Heritage Award for her husband, the late Father James Groppi, and used the opportunity to deliver a scathing criticism to …