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By Thanksgiving, the Congressional “Super Committee” is supposed to come up with $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years. The Super Committee can include anything it …

Already the 2012 projections are in – not for who is going to win the election – but for how much it is likely to cost. Public …

During the 2008 financial crisis, when the nation's banking system seemed on the verge of collapse, President George W. Bush authorized a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. …

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An explosive new report in Rolling Stone magazine exposes how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the …

It was only a matter of time before the “pull down” NAFTA and WTO trade agreements on U.S. wages and jobs would be followed by “pull down” contract demands …

A speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders was an inspiration for a new art video about the effects of budget cuts on the middle class. “Art has the power to …

FEMA USAR teams go out in boats to help rescue residents stranded due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina, August 31st, 2005. (Photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA) Leo Bosner was …

In this highly polarized country, one idea about fixing America's economic woes reverberates across ideological, partisan, geographic and class lines: “Let's make things in America again.” And …

Having just been recently rolled by tea party Republicans in the debt-ceiling circus, Barack Obama now says that his priority is job creation. Wow, what took him so long? …