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Gang of Six Plan Gives Tax Breaks for Wealthy, Social Security Cuts for Ordinary Workers
Washington, D.C.- The budget plan produced by the Senate’s “Gang of Six” offers the promise of huge tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in the country, while …
Paid Sick Leave Is Good for Us All
(Photo: Claus Rebler) San Francisco - The latest figures show that some 44 million workers in private employment - more than 40 percent of the private-sector workforce …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Vote Today on Their Plan to Raise the Debt Limit, and More
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans to vote today on their plan to raise the debt limit, robo-signers return, Rupert Murdoch appeared before the UK Parliament today, …
Reading the Debt Ceiling Tea Leaves to Predict the Future
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and President Barack Obama during a meeting with Congressional leaders concerning the nation's debt ceiling, in the Cabinet Room at the White House in …
President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street
President Barack Obama during a press conference at the White House in Washington, July 15 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) The ability of …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Allegations Fox News Also Into Illegal Phone Hacking in US, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
Koch Brothers’ ALEC Tentacles Creep Into Your State
(Photo: internets_dairy) Thanks to the work from the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), investigative journalists like Beau Hodai and The Nation's exposé, we now know that …
Trial Brings Attention to Corruption in the New Orleans Police Department
In New Orleans’ federal courthouse, five police officers are currently facing charges of killing unarmed black civilians who were escaping floods from the failed levees that buckled during Hurricane …
Egyptian Counterrevolution Struggling for a Breakthrough
A vendor arranges Egyptian flags before a morning prayer service at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, July 11, 2011. Almost six months after the Egypt revolution that successfully saw the …
After Fukushima: Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds in Britain and Japan
With no end in sight to the world’s worst atomic power crisis in a quarter of a century, collusion between Japan’s nuclear industry and its supposedly neutral government watchdogs …