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Cutting the Budget, Bleeding Us Dry
Carol Simpson CartoonWork (http://www.cartoonwork.com) Originally posted at In These Times If you feel like that recovery we keep hearing about hasn’t quite trickled down to your block, there’s a good...
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Cross-posted from In These Times For a typical boss, there’s only one thing better than getting away with not paying your workers: getting the government to supply you with people who will work for...
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Scant Room for Equity in Obama’s Talking Points on Jobs
Photo by Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images Cross-posted from In These Times. President Obama’s jobs speech before Congress struck an uncomfortable balance between the art of the possible and the...
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Washington’s Debt Panic and the Real Social Debt in America
DonkeyHotey via flickr Cross-posted from In These Times In the wake of the Congressional Supercommittee’s collapse, we finally have consensus on both sides of the aisle: the lawmakers orchestrating the...
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Participatory Budgeting Lets New Yorkers Experiment With Economic Democracy
A steering committee workshop of the Participatory Budgeting Project. (PB Project) Cross-posted from In These Times For many American cities, the budget process is basically fiscal hell, and the...
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Shame of the Nation: House VAWA Bill Ratchets Up Attacks on Domestic Violence...
Cross-posted from In These Times. Women have been under economic assault in Washington for months. Deficit hawks have taken aim at social programs and civil rights protections that help keep women...
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Pension Panic Fueled by Anti-Worker Politics?
Pew Center on the States Originally posted at In These Times It’s a common refrain in local papers: State faces pension funding crisis! Retiree benefits out of control! Public pensions bog down...
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A Budget That Tightens Belts by Emptying Stomachs
(U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr / Creative Commons) Originally posted at In These Times. A time-honored tactic of conservative lawmakers is to “starve the beast”by defunding government...
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