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Obama says he will keep fighting for consumer bureau chief, payroll tax holiday

President Barack Obama blasted Senate Republicans for opposing the confirmation of a director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...
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Democrats, GOP work toward compromise, offer plans to extend payroll tax cut

Congress is getting closer to reaching a compromise on extending the payroll tax cut but whether an extension will ultimately pass is still unclear...
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GOP block effort to extend payroll tax cut for middle class families in 2012

San Bernardino County families could see a roughly $1,000 tax increase next year after Senate Republicans voted against a payroll tax cut extension...
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Democrats look to tax millionaires to pay for jobs bill, hope to vote soon

Senate Democrats have changed how the American Jobs Act will be paid for by asking millionaires to fund the bill instead of those making $200,000...
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Biden says Democrats will protect middle class as Obama takes over debt talks

Vice President Joe Biden said this weekend that the Obama administration would not let the middle class “carry the whole burden” in...
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Frontier Records 30th anniversary at The Echo on 7 November

In 1980, Lisa Fancher started Frontier Records as a hardcore punk label. Frontier is still going and is celebrating 30 years of existence tomorrow...
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American Middle Class: Bummed out

Prospects for college graduates are dim as this week’s New Yorker Magazine illustrates. Prospects for Middle Class American Moms and Dads...
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Mitt Romney is right: Poor on safety nets are better off than most Americans

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  • February 3, 2012
On January 31st, the media began to attack Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on one of his comments said after winning the Florida...
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Obama Challenges Republicans to step up for Americans

President Obama was blunt in his press conference Thursday morning, as he asked the Senate to pass his jobs bill, and it was directed at...
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Poverty on the rise three years after Fed pumps over $6 trillion into economy

As the US heads towards a showdown with raising the debt celing, and the Federal Reserve came out on July 13th saying that further stimulus is...
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