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Experts Warn of Recession — Duh, We’re Living in One Already
By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com
Growth and productivity mean nothing when they are de-coupled from most people’s lived experience: being squeezed.
In a remarkable Washington Post column that highlighted the gaping disconnect that exists between our pundit class and ordinary Americans as well as anything could, George Will lamented Iowa Voters’ response to John Edwards’ and Mike Huckabee’s “curdled populism,” which, according to an unusually grumpy Will, “encourag[es] self-pity and economic hypochondria.”
It’s worth noting that what Will so condescendingly derides — concerns about an economy in which productivity growth no longer translates into better wages and a massive and unprecedented “risk shift” is taking place in which working families are losing employer-based (and government-based) health care and retirement plans — Republicans in New Hampshire joined Democrats and independents in saying that the economy was their number one concern. Even if George Will can’t see it, it’s clear that most Americans can.
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-Joshua Holland
Editor, Corporate Accountability and Workplace
NH Voters Agree: Fix The Economy
By Bill Scher, TomPaine.com
Democrats, Republicans and independents all say the economy is job one.
Playing the Class Card
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
As long as Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem have chosen to play the women’s card against the race card, let’s throw in a third one: the class card.
NY Carpenters’ Union Embraces Immigrant Organizing
By Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes
“The union has had to recognize the reality that the only way to organize is to start organizing the immigrant workers.
Big Oil’s Profits and Plunder
By Ralph Nader, Nader.org
Everyone in Washington knows that the big, subsidized oil industry has Congress over a barrel.
Baloney, Inequality and Mitt’s Family Fortune
By Sam Pizzigati, AlterNet
Mitt Romney’s family history offers insights into America’s recent past. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Mitt to share it.
‘Democracy,’ American Style
By Paul Buchheit, AlterNet
If this is democracy, why doesn’t the average wage earner receive a fair share of America’s productive economy?
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Bush Reappoints Mine Safety Chief Who Bungled Crandall Canyon Disaster
By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
The Senate had twice rejected his nomination because the mines he managed “incurred injury rates double the national average.
New Film Slams Wal-Mart: “Going Big Box vs. Going Local” [VIDEO]
By Dennis Chin, Movement Vision Lab
This Movement Vision Lab film follows one woman on a shopping quest — as we learn about the consequences at every turn.
Top Ten Reasons Why the WGA’s Deal With Letterman Is Great
By Jesse Wendel, Group News Blog
Everything the the WGA had on the table—where the AMPTP left it when they walked out 25 days ago.