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Verizon Goes From Wireless to Shameless
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 …
Bernie Sanders: The Melting Middle Class
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 During Hurricane Katrina and Beyond
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 …
Make It in America: How We Can Bring Manufacturing Back (No, Really)
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 …
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Your Job, Mr. President, Is Jobs
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? …
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Bill Moyers to Return to TV With a New Series
Related Links: Bill Moyers Interview with HNN Bill Moyers will be back on TV in January with a new series on PBS, HNN has learned. …
“No Man Is an Island”: Reflections From Norway
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White House Should Reject Big Business Fiction That the Job Crisis Is Due to Excessive Regulation
From Robert Weissman, president, Public Citizen: Everyone agrees that outdated rules that no longer serve a purpose should be stricken from the books. But the administration’s overemphasis …
Measuring Executive Pay – and Responsibility
When Nintendo slashed the price of its 6-month-old 3-D game device by nearly a third (to $169.99) a few weeks ago, company President Satoru Iwata voluntarily took a 50% …
Interview: Bill Moyers on His Career and Where We Stand Now
(Image: The New Press) Bill Moyers has devoted his career to educating, informing and inspiring the American public while leading a national conversation with the conviction that …