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On the News With Thom Hartmann: United States ONLY G-20 Nation Where New Workers Have Less Education Than Retiring Workers, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…

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Growing Up Muslim in a Post-9/11 World
San Francisco - For Muslim and Sikh youth growing into adolescence in the past decade, 9/11 has either been a menacing specter or just a perceived threat. But either …

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Older Hispanics Unable to Recover from Recession
Florida - Alberto Tarud would like to treat your lawn for pests, notarize your will or provide security at your office. Really, he’d like any kind of …

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Green Jobs: A Promise Unfulfilled
Washington, D.C. - When Barack Obama was running for president, he promised to spend $150 billion over the next decade on renewable energy technologies, an investment that would lead …

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Getting Sick Doesn’t Pay
Seattle - If the nation’s 14 million unemployed workers return to jobs, they will find some sobering changes in the workplace: They’ll earn less, pay more for health insurance …

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Perry, Romney Duel on Social Security at Tea Party Debate
Tampa, Florida - The future of Social Security, a pivotal issue in retiree-rich Florida, seized the political spotlight at Monday's Republican presidential debate as Mitt Romney tried hard to …

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Cantor Votes to Rebuild Iraq, Refuses to Rebuild America
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) voted for over $120 billion to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, funds that were used to construct and repair schools, roads, bridges, and other critical …

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Libya: The Petrol Partitioned in Paris
This afternoon, the western powers will assemble in Paris, officially to “pave the route” to post-Gaddafi Libya. Each party will be likely to fight for its share of the …

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Bank of America to Eliminate 30,000 Jobs
Bank of America Corp. said today that the first phase of its cost-cutting program is expected to eliminate 30,000 jobs over the next few years. The reductions …

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Bush’s “October Surprise” File in Dispute
The National Archives is reconsidering its initial refusal to release Secret Service records regarding the whereabouts of George H.W. Bush on Oct. 19, 1980, when the then-Republican vice presidential …