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Louisiana on schedule for recovery, while California flails in recession

The contrast is striking. In stereotypically backwoods Louisiana, job losses are relatively small, unemployment is below the national rate and...

Baracking the vote, from the Bay Area to the Silver State

You may have heard of some Golden State interlopers who recently headed to Nevada to encourage people to Barack the vote and turn the traditionally...

Inequality: America's past and future

Been wondering what the 99% objectives are? Been wondering how it came to be that there is a claim that 99% of the population can be identified and...

Senate to vote this week on resolution gutting new union rights

This week the US Senate is poised to vote on S.J. Res. 36, a joint resolution that would nullify a recently-adopted, pro-union rights National...

Republican presidential candidate gains advantage by destroying issue

According to Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich’s Minister of Propaganda:If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will...

Personal deficit

By all accounts, we should be richer today than we have ever been before. We should be richer today than any people have ever been since there were...

Local employees of the Brazilian consulates ask for better working conditions

If you are considering a trip to Brazil, apply for your visa as soon as possible: the employees of the Brazilian consulates may go on strike. Faced...

There is good news for the American worker.

The end of the cold war was significant in opening labor markets that were previously inaccessible and volatile. Once global stability was...

Progress is not a Dirty Word

First there was the New Deal, and then there came the Ordeal; now we need the Re-Deal.For more than four decades after the Great Depression struck,...