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Michigan deficit plan: Raise taxes on poor

February 2, 2011 By John Rummel

Going after those on the low end of the economic ladder, Republicans in the Michigan Legislature want to eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor.

Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job

February 2, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.

Hire the unemployed to meet the snow emergency

February 2, 2011 By Jarvis Tyner

It’s time to hire the unemployed at union wages - start with laid off public workers - and help save lives and clean up this mess.

GOP economic plans signal class war on working families

February 1, 2011 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Detailed analysis of House Republican economic proposals reveals an extreme agenda that few Americans would have knowingly voted for.

What happened to the War on Poverty?

February 1, 2011 By Pamela Powers

With the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy and the passing of Sargent Shriver, a foot soldier in the War on Poverty, recently, I have been reading about the early 1960s and listening to speeches...