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What Trickle-Down Economics Has Done to the US: The Rich Get All the Money
Wealth is being redistributed in the US from the poor and the middle class to the rich.
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Five Reasons Congress Should Oppose the TPP
The TPP, being negotiated secretly, would likely harm, not benefit, US workers.
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Economy Adds 257,000 Jobs in January
The unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 5.7 percent.
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The Deficits Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About
Our real deficits are in jobs, infrastructure, income, equality, retirement security, education and trade.
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We Need Less Work, Not More
For the planet and our health, it's time to build a labor movement that stands for less labor, not more.
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Unemployment Rate Edges Down to 5.6 Percent, but Wages Stagnate
The unemployment rate edged down to 5.6 percent in December from 5.7 percent in November.
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Hope for Jobs, Prepare for Recession in 2015
The economy is booming. So where are the jobs?
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Good Economic News in the US Should Not Lead to Complacency
The Fed should wait until it sees the whites of inflation's eyes before it raises rates.
Pipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More Jobs Than It Creates
Labor researchers say the jobs figures for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline have been vastly distorted.
The Job Opportunity Cost of War
Net job creation would have been 1 to 2 million jobs greater if the US had not been at war.