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Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment: Pipelines, Fracking, or Clean Energy?
Politics has pushed President Obama away from the green agenda and towards fossil fuels, but fracking and pipelines are not the answer to our nation's energy dilemma.
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Everyone’s Hired
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Do America’s Corporations Care How Much American Workers Earn?
Despite worries about sagging consumer confidence and shrinking paychecks, business leaders seem unconcerned about the declining standard of living of middle-class America, or about the growing number of American …
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“It’s Arithmetic”: The Best of Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech, in One Infographic
Just in case you missed one of the most important points of Clinton's DNC speech on Wednesday, this infographic explains it all.
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Your Turn, Mr. President
have reached a phase of the presidential campaign that could be called the Season of Empty Metaphors.
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Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It’s Inequality, Stupid
As wealth and income rise to the top, moreover, so does political power.
The Environmental Health Costs of a Petrochemical Future
A chemical industry trade group is touting a job-creating side benefit of fracking in North Carolina, claiming that building a plant to process natural gas into the petrochemical products …
Cut the Pentagon Budget, Not Social Security and Veterans’ Benefits, Save 380,000 Jobs
Some people in Washington want to cut Social Security and veterans' benefits, by cutting the cost-of-living adjustment.
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Where Are the Jobs? Scenes from California’s Job Club
Romney says Obama “gutted” welfare reform by waiving work requirements. But what if there's no work to be found?
Romney-Ryan “Ploughshares to Swords” Budget Would Cost America at Least 530,000 Jobs
Their plans to cut domestic spending in order to increase military spending would cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs.