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95,000 more jobs are lost
October 11, 201095,000 jobs were lost in September because the private sector added only 64,000 jobs while government employment went down by 159,000.
Read moreIn tea party town would fire fighters watch as houses burn?
October 07, 2010Last week the nation saw a preview of life in an America as envisioned by ultra-right tea party types - a country where everything will be "privatized," more frightening than anything the cinema has to offer.
Read morePoll: candidates backing health care likely victors in November
October 06, 2010Fifty-four percent of voters say they would be more likely to back a candidate who supported health care reform. That number includes 51 percent of independents and 70 percent of Democratic voters.
Read moreGOP candidates target minimum wage
October 05, 2010A look at races across the country shows that many Republicans are attacking a concept Americans have long held sacred - the federal minimum wage.
Read more$189 billion in profits to buy elections, but none for jobs
October 04, 2010America's corporations, awash with a record $189 billion in profits earned in the last business quarter, are spending their money not to create jobs, but to buy the midterm election next month.
Read moreU.S. apologizes to Guatemala
October 04, 2010Sixty-four years after it used the people of Guatemala as guinea pigs in a study of venereal diseases, the U.S. government last week issued an official apology.
Read moreGOP facing multiple hurdles in election drive
September 27, 2010Republicans hoping to seize control of Congress on Election Day face a week of obstacles that are expected to complicate their plans.
Read moreGOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam
September 24, 2010It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."
Read morePoverty up, uninsured up
September 22, 2010The Great Recession hit home and hit hard in 2009, the Census Bureau said, as the number of uninsured leaped by 4.4 million in one year.
Read moreObama says he won’t budge on ending Bush tax cuts for the rich
September 21, 2010"What I ask the Tea Party is, ‘Would you cut veterans' benefits, end Medicare, end Social Security?'”
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