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America Cowed: Are We Too Frightened to Forge Our Future?
Robert Borosage By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future Americans have grown fearful. Most believe, not surprisingly, that the country is headed in the wrong direction. For the...
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The Private Sector Needs a Public Jobs Stimulus
Mitchell Hirsch By Mitchell Hirsch 2010 CREDO Mobile/Netroots Nation award for Blog Activist of the Year What do I mean? Specifically, the U.S. private sector currently needs substantial,...
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The U.K. Swallows Austerity So We Don’t Have To
Dean Baker By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Little brothers exist to be abused by their older siblings. The United Kingdom has willingly played the role of abused...
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Vote for Hope
Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard USW International President The electorate is bitter and angry. It’s no wonder. Foreclosures rise while Wall Street bankers, whose recklessness caused this grave...
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2010 Election Comparisons: 1934 vs. 1994
Michael J. Wilson By Michael J. Wilson National director, Americans for Democratic Action Forget the 1994 Elections. Look Way Back to 1934 for the Best Parallels to 2010 We’ve all heard the electoral...
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FDR: The Second Bill of Rights
Robert Borosage By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future How does America dig out of the hole we are in? Surely the focus must be on first principles, how do we recreate an...
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Will the Florida GOP Dishonor the Greatest Generation?
Harvey J. Kaye By Harvey Kaye Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay This past Saturday, April 2, Florida Republicans launched a six-months-long,...
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Why We Need a Bold New Jobs Program
David Woolner Senior Fellow, Hyde Park Resident Historian, Roosevelt Institute.“To those who say that our expenditures for Public Works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford, I...
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Fifty years of my life I spent earning a living in various physical labor intense work, sometimes two even three jobs. I was a boomer who with only a high school equivalent was able to eke out a...
View ArticleMitt Romney: The Empty Suit Clueless about the Empty Chair
Billy Koehler died on March 7, 2009, for lack of health insurance. Mitt Romney said on Oct. 10, 2012, that’s impossible. The Republican nominee for President told The Columbus Dispatch newspaper last...
View ArticleA New Deal for Christmas
It was a hard knock life at Christmas in 1933, and it’s a hard knock holiday 80 years later. In the musical “Annie,” set in 1933 during the Great Depression, the cast sings about it: “The children...
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