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DOL official: Economy ‘not normal,’ recovery way too long
June 11, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI) -- The current economy is "not normal," unemployment affects different groups of people than it did before, and the recovery - in terms of the joblessness numbers - will take longer than it did...
Read moreAn idea whose time has come
June 10, 2010A new political and economic model, a new New Deal, is urgently needed, but the tycoons of finance are not about to yield their power - it will take a series of struggles.
Read moreThe Gulf clean up and jobs
June 10, 2010I think MSNBC's Chris Matthews was right in calling for the creation of a Civilian Conservation Corp to put thousands of young people to work cleaning up the Gulf.
Read moreAs November nears, Texas GOP gets weirder
June 10, 2010The great State of Texas has always been an asylum for colorful characters, but something is burnishing those colors to high gloss of late.
Read moreUnion baiting equals hating
June 9, 2010A couple of months ago, I heard Joel Klein, head of New York's Department of Education, blame the teachers' union contract for the fact that there are a lot of Jewish holidays on the school calendar
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