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ALTERNET: Don't Call It a "Defense" Budget
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The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it.
Submitted about 1 month ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Afro-Netizen: Obama's Proposed "Small Business" Initiative Lacks Audacity (and Focus)
(www.afro-netizen.com)
You wouldn't have guessed it from listening to President Obama's State of the Union address, but small and/or new businesses aren't really the types of enterprises that need our recirculated stimulus... More
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Fighting on Frontlines of the Foreclosure Crisis: Citizens Take on the Monster Banks | Economy | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
East Boston is one of those urban neighborhoods that is easy to pass through and hard to get to. It's separated from downtown Boston by a river, bisected by two tunnels and a freeway, and hemmed in by... More
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Elizabeth Warren on the Great Economic Battlefield: Protecting the Middle Class from Financial Predators | Economy | AlterNet
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For years, federal banking regulators at the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the Federal Reserve helped the nation's largest banks wage war on... More
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Dem Aide: Reports of $80 Billion Jobs Bill Are Wrong
(washingtonindependent.com)
Those reports about an $80 billion Senate jobs package? “Wrong,” a Senate Democratic aide told TWI. The staffer indicated this afternoon that Democrats are weighing a number of proposals to tackle... More
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Harkin urges 10-month extension of unemployment benefits
(iowaindependent.com)
With unemployment still hovering in double digits and no real relief in sight, a group of 30 Senate Democrats, including Iowa’s Tom Harkin, is urging party leaders to extend emergency unemployment... More
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Grassley Questions ‘Severance’ Pay to AIG Exec
(washingtonindependent.com)
As Wall Street prepares to dole out billions of dollars in 2009 bonuses, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has his eyes on one particular payment of $2.8 million. That’s the amount reportedly paid to... More
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Another Look at Obama’s Proposed Bank Tax
(washingtonindependent.com)
The tax on the nation’s bailed-out banks, proposed by President Obama last week, has won the support of congressional liberals, and even some conservative commentators have jumped on board. But... More
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Why Can't We Get Anyone to Ask a Wall St. CEO the Hard Questions? | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
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Articles and blogs are flooding the Web, summarizing and dissecting the opening Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's chat with the four CEOs presiding over the strongest (read: luckiest recipients of... More
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Let’s Toss Geithner and Take Our Money Back
(www.chelseagreen.com)
“An arm of the Federal Reserve, then led by now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told bailed-out insurance giant AIG to withhold key details from the public about overpayments that put billions... More
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