Category Archives: POLICY

Rick Perry’s and Wall Street’s Scheme to Profit from Teacher Deaths

All they (Perry’s administration) had to do was convince retirees to let UBS buy life insurance policies on them. When the retirees died, those policies would pay out benefits to Wall Street speculators, and the state, supposedly, would get paid … Continue reading

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Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse

By Robert Reich We now live in parallel universes. One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The … Continue reading

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The Deficit is Not Default of Obama

EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama, by: Greg Palast, Truthout | News Analysis, Thursday 21 July 2011 Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt ceiling.” From 2001 to 2008, a … Continue reading

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GOP Senator: Obama Will Cave On Debt

By Michael McAuliff HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Republicans are willing to push President Obama to the wall with their budget-slashing bill to raise the debt ceiling because they are convinced he will capitulate on his veto threat and sign it, … Continue reading

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Who Suffers Under The Gang of Six Deficit Reduction Scheme: Seniors, Students, Working families

Social Security benefits would be reduced, and there are also cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Students and the disabled would lose some federal government support By George Zornick The Nation President Obama endorsed the Senate’s Gang of Six deficit reduction … Continue reading

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Go Gang of Seventy … and the People’s Budget

By Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation With too much fanfare, the contours of a “grand bargain” on the budget have emerged with a proposal offered by the Senate’s Gang of Six. It’s a deal that looks a helluva lot more … Continue reading

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74% of Americans want a single agency to focus on protecting consumers from financial organizations

By James Sunshine HUFFINGTON POST As of Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is open for business. And many Americans have already expressed their support. The agency, first conceived of by Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, was created under last … Continue reading

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SOLUTIONS: Landowners Challenge TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline

TransCanada is suing and threatening American farmers and ranchers with eminent domain so it can build a pipeline that will serve no one but TransCanada and Big Oil By Tom Zeller Jr. HUFFINGTON POST Sue Kelso, born Sue White, is … Continue reading

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Letting Bankers Walk

By Paul Krugman New York Times Ever since the current economic crisis began, it has seemed that five words sum up the central principle of United States financial policy: go easy on the bankers. This principle was on display during … Continue reading

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ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition

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