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Obama demands banks give “every dime back” to taxpayers

January 18, 2010 By Joe Sims

With Wall Street executives raking in windfall profits while the rest of the country staggered through a banker-caused recession, President Obama pledged to impose a tax on major financial firms to recoup bailout money.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That’s what we need!

January 17, 2010 By Nell Ranta

Diehard conservatives - mostly Republicans - are willing to let the elderly, the disabled and the children die, while they themselves do nothing but scream, "No new taxes!"

Three schools of thought on financial reform

January 15, 2010 By John Case

There is going to be a real problem moving ordinary people into action on any financial reform that does not a) restore their lost pensions, or b) give them back their foreclosed home.

Challenging anti-government ideas

January 13, 2010 By Bruce Bostick And Wally Kaufman

We need to show that the American people through their struggles have established the basic institutions of democratic society including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Postal Service, the VA, public schools and libraries, and much more....

Confronting corporate ideology in the fight for jobs

January 13, 2010 By Bruce Bostick And Wally Kaufman

The struggle for jobs must challenge ideas of "market supremacy" - downgrading everything public - and "supply side" trickle-down economics. (Part 2 of 3-part series)