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Regulations, Taxes Aren’t Killing Small Business, Owners Say
Washington - Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy …
Five GOP Presidential Candidates Have Proposed Eliminating Capital Gains Tax, a $1 Trillion Giveaway to the Rich
Yesterday, 2012 GOP presidential long-shot Jon Huntsman unveiled an economic plan that, in addition to including standard conservative tropes about repealing the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial …
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For the Governor of Vermont, a Crash Course in Disaster Management
Pittsfield, Vermont - After helicoptering into this flood-ravaged town and delivering a pep talk to residents who had been stranded for three days and counting, Gov. Peter Shumlin asked …
North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle” – It’s Not Oil
The state-owned Bank of North Dakota is credited with the state's relatively healthy economy. (Photo: banknd.nd.gov) In an article in The New York Times on August 19th …
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Rio+20: Beyond the Legacy of Despair
In June 2012, there will be a follow-up to the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro twenty years earlier. The upcoming summit (Rio + 20) will focus on …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Boehner Rejects Obama’s Request for a Joint Session of Congress, and More
In today's On the News segment: Speaker of the House John Boehner made history yesterday by rejecting a presidential request for a joint session of Congress, Michigan Republican Gov. …
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The Great Experiment in Spending
In 1942, Virginia Young, right, a supervisor at an air base in Texas, secured housing for new workers like Ethel Mann. (Photo: Howard R. Hollem / Library of Congress) …
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Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head, UN Says
A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, …
What a Difference a Decade Makes: Ten Years of “Homeland Security“
(Image: LP / Truthout) On August 5, 2002, President George Bush declared, “We're fighting ... to secure freedom in the homeland.” Strikingly, he did not use the …
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Perry’s Iowa Remarks Reveal Republican Strategy on Social Security
The media have portrayed Governor Rick Perry’s description of Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme” at a recent Iowa campaign event as the latest extreme statement of an unconventionally …