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Will Workers Survive State Budget Belt-Tightening?

By MATTHEW SHERMAN
CEPR
January 11th, 2009
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Issue Brief : December 2008 takes up the job losses expected without proper allocations to states in the Economic Recovery Plan. more »

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Executing the Main Street Economic Recovery Program Equitably

By Susan Ozawa
December 22, 2008

Given the male dominated nature of construction and heavy manufacturing involved in infrastructure projects Eileen Appelbaum, at the School of Management and Labor Relations and Director of the Center for Women and Work recommends that proposals pushing infrastructure investment include construction of child care centers and additional space to accommodate expanded pre-K programs. more »

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Change.gov Discussion on the Main Street Recovery Program

By Susan Ozawa
December 15, 2008

Participate in the discussion about the Main Street Recovery Program on Change.gov.

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Collapsing Bridges, Sinking Levees. It’s (Past) Time to Invest

By Eric Lotke
July 31, 2008

Our nation’s infrastructure is dying of old age and neglect. The solution is obvious: Repair and rebuild. We can't allow conservatives to have us running scared from this issue.

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New Unemployment, Old Solutions

By Eric Lotke
November 6, 2009

Today’s unemployment data contain gloomy news. Gloomy, but expected. The interpretation of the data is even worse. more »

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Green Shoots. For Whom?

By Eric Lotke
November 5, 2009

Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain what looks like good news. But keep the cork in the bottles.

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Greenwald: WaPo thinks wars are more important than health care.

By Glenn Greenwald
From salon.com
October 25th, 2009

salon.com — Glenn Greenwald reveals the depraved "logic" behind the beltway media establishment in his latest entry. According to the Washington Post, it's perfectly acceptable to be trillions of dollars in debt to finance the crumbling empire's wars abroad, but wholly unacceptable to invest in genuine health care reform because it would create massive debt.

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Caught In A Machine That Grinds Us Up

By Dave Johnson
October 21, 2009

This is Part II of Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities. See Part I, Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities - Workers, Customers and Country As Costs. more »

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Bernanke Solves The Wrong Deficit

By Eric Lotke
October 19, 2009

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recognized today that America’s trade deficit played a central role in the global economic crisis. Then after he recognized the problem, he went on to solve a different one. more »

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Time to Take on the Banks

By Eric Lotke
October 16, 2009

The American people didn’t bail out banks that were too big to fail so they could take over banks that were smaller and did.

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