Category Archives: POLICY

Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest

Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo.

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14 Senators – a song by Ken Lonnquist (written 2-18-2011)

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Gambling On Hunger: Amid A Food Crisis, Why Do Republicans Want To Keep Regulators At Bay?

By Zach Carter and Ryan Grim HUFFINGTON POST Big price spikes are good for traders holding onto wheat or oil contracts, allowing them to stuff more money into their wallets while families struggling to make ends meet thousands of miles … Continue reading

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Russ Feingold Launches ‘Progressives United’ To Combat Corporate Influences In Politics

By Amanda Terkel HUFFINGTON POST Things were like this 100 years ago in the United States, with the huge corporate and business power of the oil companies and others. But this time it’s like the Gilded Age on steroids. WASHINGTON … Continue reading

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When Democracy Weakens

By Bob Herbert The New York Times So what we get in this democracy of ours are astounding and increasingly obscene tax breaks and other windfall benefits for the wealthiest, while the bought-and-paid-for politicians hack away at essential public services … Continue reading

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Obama’s Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor

By Arthur Delaney HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — As Democrats and Republicans wrangle over fiscal austerity and the shape of the 2012 federal budget, the White House is targeting programs in the $4 trillion budget that benefit low-income Americans. It’s a … Continue reading

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For-Profit College Recruiters Taught To Use ‘Pain,’ ‘Fear,’ Internal Documents Show

By Chris Kirkham Huffington Post Newly-released internal training documents from several for-profit colleges illustrate a culture that encourages recruiters to increase enrollment by focusing on emotions such as “pain” and “fear” to attract low-income students who are struggling with adverse … Continue reading

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Gap Between Rich And Poor Named 8th Wonder Of The World

The Onion “It’s breathtaking,” said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a longtime champion and benefactor of the rift’s conservation. “After all we’ve been through in recent years, there’s no greater privilege than watching it grow bigger and bigger each day. … Continue reading

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Think Again: American Decline

By Gideon Rachman Foreign Policy “We’ve Heard All This About American Decline Before.” This time it’s different. It’s certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy … Continue reading

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Should GE’s Jeffrey Immelt Really Be Leading Our Job Creation Strategy?

By Scott Paul HUFFINGTON POST You would have difficulty finding a company that has outsourced more jobs and closed more American factories than GE. There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO … Continue reading

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