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Taking on the banking cabal (therealnews.com) TMC

Investment in infrastructure not enough; Obama must take on the banks

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Connecting the Bridge to Nowhere to the New Reality (amforumbacklog.blogspot.com)

Taxpayers around the globe have paid over $13 trillion (more than a quarter of the gross global product) to bail out financial, insurance and other organizations as well as investors. Was this global... More

Tags: economy,jobs,unemployment,investing,american forum,infrastructure,stimulus

Submitted about 1 year ago by AmericanForum | 0 Comments |

Investing in Our Human Infrastructure (amforumbacklog.blogspot.com)

Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There’s no question we need a job-creation plan. The real question is what kind of plan will most quickly stimulate the economy and at the same... More

Tags: economy,jobs,unemployment,investing,american forum,infrastructure,stimulus

Submitted about 1 year ago by AmericanForum | 0 Comments |

CAN INFRASTRUCTURE SURVIVE STIMULUS? (www.prospect.org) TMC

On the question of the tax cuts embedded in the stimulus measure, Jon Cohn spoke to a senior economist on Obama's team, who said:

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

WI Coalition: Repair Spells (Economic) Relief (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

A Wisconsin group is calling on the federal government to quickly put into effect a New Deal-style jobs program to turn the state's ailing economy around. Citizen Action of Wisconsin also wants... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

The Obama Economic Stimulus -- Will it Take Us Where We Need to Go? (www.yesmagazine.org) TMC

Dear President-elect Obama, The economic stimulus package you laid out today in your weekly radio and internet address is a great starting point -- very much needed as the downward spiral of the... More

Tags: barack obama,economic stimulus,tmc,energy efficiency,infrastructure

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Biden Hearts Rail (www.prospect.org) TMC

It's a bit unsettling to face up to, but the creation of national policy often follows a scarily delicate path. For instance, John F. Kennedy's interest in poverty, which laid the groundwork for the... More

Tags: tmc,the american prospect,ezra klein,infrastructure,rail system,trains,vice presidentelect joe biden

Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

Obama launches Change.gov, redirects fund-raising to hurricane victims (www.thoughtgadgets.com)

And over at his main site BarackObama.com, Obama flipped on a splash page today to request donations for victims of Hurricane Gustav -- which socked the Louisiana and Texas coast back on Aug. 25.... More

Tags: obama,infrastructure,disaster relief,recovery,hurricanes

Submitted about 1 year ago by backhandpath | 1 Comments |

The Opportunity of Infrastructure (www.prospect.org) TMC

James Surowiecki laments the fact that "new government spending is almost always seen as problematic while tax breaks--even selective ones that are really tantamount to government spending--are... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

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