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How State-Owned Banks Can Help Americans (And Stick It to Wall Street, Too) (www.alternet.org) TMC

With its populist business model, the Bank of North Dakota provides a template for sustainable fiscal policy at the state level.

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Submitted 4 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |

Do the new GDP numbers mean the stimulus worked? (www.prospect.org) TMC

Critics and supporters alike have wondered if the stimulus really has been as effective as its advocates hoped it would be. The news that the economy declined at a 1 percent annualized rate last... More

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Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |

New guide for African Americans to the Economic Stimulus Plan (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has prepared a resource guide - www.cbcfinc.org - for African Americans to learn more about the President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and how it... More

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Our Jobless Recovery (www.thenation.com) TMC

President Obama just told us that the economic stimulus plan has "already saved or created" 150,000 jobs and that another 450,000 will be "saved or created" by the end of the summer, including 125,000... More

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Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |

Weekly Audit: Why the Current Stimulus Plan Isn't Enough (open.salon.com) TMC

The U.S. economy just keeps getting worse. Given the absolute pummeling the job market has taken over the past five months, we're going to need some much stronger medicine than policymakers are... More

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Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Obama’s Stimulus Saves Some NY Early Education Programs (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

President Obama is committing the government to an overhaul of the education system, and early-education advocates say it's coming just in time. In New York, some home-visiting programs have been shut... More

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Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

The Opportunities of Our Economic Crisis (www.racewire.org) TMC

Congress just passed the much needed stimulus plan. It was very much an imperfect plan: too many tax cuts, too small as an overall package. But compared to what would have happened if Bush still had... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

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President Obama in Stim City (www.thenation.com) TMC

In this clip, Jon Stewart gives the weather report (Circuit City and Amalgamated Downsizing will be closed due to the "economic s--t storm"), a personal profile of one of the many unemployed American... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

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Tell WhiteHouse2 what you want in the Stimulus Plan! (whitehouse2.org)

We're imagining how the White House might work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people on the internet. Get started by setting your priorities for the nation. The more... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by EBPolgreen | 0 Comments |

Weekly Audit: Curbing Decline in 2009 (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

In 2008, we witnessed the first serious fallout from deep structural flaws in the relationship between the nation's public and private sectors, a relationship which fell short in every conceivable... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

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