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Unemployment Hurts Those At the Bottom Worst
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 5:34 PM EST (The New York Times)
The people suffering the most drastic employment reversals in this recession have been those who were in the lower-income groups to begin with — the young, less well-educated workers, especially black and Hispanic high school dropouts, and certain categories of service workers, …
Richard (RJ) Eskow: A College Test for Washington: Help Young People in Need, or Kowtow to Bank Lobbyists?
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 3:47 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
It should be, as the President once called it, a "no-brainer": Overhaul our broken system for distributing federal student loans.
Robert Reich: Obamanomics One Year Out
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 3:14 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Obamanomics suffers from a misunderstanding of what the president is trying to achieve and what he's up against. Into the breach come Republicans, Tea Partiers, nay-sayers, deficit vultures, and Raging-Dog Democrats, all viewing Obamanomics as more taxes and more spending.
Obama admin. demands justification for health insurer's 39 percent rate hike
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 11:43 AM EST (Raw Story)
Insurer spent nearly $9.5 million lobbying against health reforms; CEO's annual salary tops $10 million It's an issue that strikes at the core of America's health reform debate: How much should one have to pay to ensure their health care needs are met?
Rep McClintock's(R) refusal to consider budget earmarks hurts his district, his Republican critics say
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 10:39 AM EST (The Sacramento Bee)
As the federal budget season heats up, some Placer County officials are grumbling that Republican Rep. Tom McClintock's ideological opposition to congressional earmarks puts their constituents at a disadvantage.
False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 9:50 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
"As the nation struggles to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the people who got us here are desperately working to rewrite history. The basic story of this economic collapse is very simple.
Whose Fault? : The Baseline Scenario
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 9:37 AM EST ()
To believe politicians in Washington and pundits in the media, the national debt has become the most important political issue of the day.
Despite Earning $2.7 Billion Last Quarter, Blue Cross Is Raising Its California Rates By 39%. The Obama Administration Would Like To Know Why.
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 7:51 AM EST (Talking Points Memo)
The Obama administration has been decrying a California insurer's 39 percent rate hike as an example of why health care reform is so important, and today they put some muscle behind the complaints.
fraying-at-the-edges: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 8:07 PM EST (finance.yahoo.com)
We must hang together," Benjamin Franklin once said of the colonies that formed the United States. "Else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
Monsanto: The evil corporation in your refrigerator
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 4:39 PM EST (walletpop.com)
Recently, a study by the International Journal of Biological Sciences revealed that Monsanto's Mon 863, Mon 810, and Roundup herbicide-absorbing NK 603 in corn caused kidney and liver damage in laboratory rats.
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