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With Recoveries Like This, Who Needs A Depression?
(airamerica.com)
General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union agreed to a restructuring plan that would give the union a much smaller piece of the company than originally envisioned.
Submitted 9 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Did Your Car Cause the Crisis?
(www.prospect.org)
Traffic on La Cienega Boulevard passes operating crude oil pumps at the Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles County. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) If you ask an average American to explain just how... More
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The Only Road Out of Crisis
(www.inthesetimes.com)
Since taking office, President Barack Obama and his economic team have confronted a daunting financial crisis with a string of solutions that have been hard to sell to a wary public.
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Diagnosing America's Ailing Economy
(www.thenation.com)
The Nation's National Affairs correspondent William Greider spoke with Democracy Now! hosts Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on May 5th. The veteran journalist discussed the dangers of our... More
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Security Blanket: How Social Security Can Save Us All
(www.motherjones.com)
it's not widely enough appreciated just how hard this economic crisis is going to be on the old. Why? Because unlike the working population, they are often, well, no longer working. And while the laid... More
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Causes of the Crisis
(www.texasobserver.org)
These remarks were delivered to a meeting of the Texas Lyceum in Austin on April 3, at a debate between University of Texas professor James Galbraith, an Observer contributing writer, and former... More
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"People Shouldn't Have to Live Like This": The Real Story Behind "Tent City" -- and How the Media Get It Wrong
(www.alternet.org)
The media have finally discovered homelessness. Not surprisingly, they get the story wrong.
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
UN: Economic crisis threatens international family planning
(www.feministing.com)
[T]he UN has expressed fears that there could be a shortfall in money for reproductive health services as donors reduce funding and the costs of healthcare rise.
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Will This Be Worse than the Depression?
(www.prospect.org)
Some scary charts over at VoxEU.org suggest it already is. There, economists Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O'Rourke remind that the Great Depression "was a global phenomenon" and our "Great Recession"... More
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In March another 663,000 people lost their jobs in America.
(www.laborradio.org)
In March another 663,000 people lost their jobs in America. The accelerating job losses pushed the official national unemployment rate to 8.5 percent with no relief in sight. This is the highest... More
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