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Put Lou Dobbs Out to Pasture
Our problem is not an immigration issue, it’s an economic one.
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Stop Them From Eating My Town
We must break up the modern-day monopolists and return opportunity and wealth to local communities and small businesses.
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Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts
Why is it that Americans have come to believe that tax cuts are good for everyone?
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Bring My Job Home!
“Free trade” is a guaranteed ticket to the poorhouse for any nation, and the evidence is overwhelming.
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DUKES v. WAL-MART (short)
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What America Has Given Up for Ten Years of Bush Tax Cuts
The cost of Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was, as estimated to be roughly $2.5 trillion through 2010.
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Why March-April’s Job Gains Will Collapse This Summer
The jobs crisis is far from over.
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The International Assault on Labor
The state-corporate war against unions has recently extended to the public sector.
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Haymarket and the Chicago Idea Resonate 125 Years Later
Haymarket Riot Memorial, on the corner of Randolph and Desplaines, Chicago. (Photo: avrenim_acceber) One hundred and twenty-five years ago today, a bomb exploded in Chicago's Haymarket Square. …
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“Unequal Protection”: The People’s Masters
(cdrummbks / flickr) Fast on the heels of the passage and then Supreme Court interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, a new type of feudalism emerged in America …