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It Is Time To Put Our Foot Down: Ten Steps We Can Take to Stop Closing Factories and Eliminating Jobs

By Dave Johnson
March 10, 2010

The economy is still getting worse more slowly. We lost "only" 36,000 jobs last month. We need to create 11 million new jobs just to get back to where we were before "free-market" conservatives took over our government and dismanted the protections and regulations that had protected us from this. more »

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Friedman on Competitiveness: Identifies Problem, Offers Exactly Wrong Solution

By Dave Johnson
March 3, 2010

Americans who travel out of the country will tell you about how the US is so visibly falling further and further behind the rest of the world. This hurts our ability to compete economically. The cause of the problem was tax cuts. The solution is certainly not more tax cuts. more »

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Jobs: Bail Out States, Yes Or No?

By Dave Johnson
February 23, 2010

In Big Push Needed For Win 60 Votes For State Aid ... And More Private Sector Jobs, Bill Scher writes of the need for,

...a major grassroots push to secure critical aid for fiscally distressed state governments and help tackle the jobs crisis.

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Create Real Jobs That Pay Off: Update Our 1970's Infrastructure

By Dave Johnson
February 21, 2010

One legacy of the Reagan tax cuts is that we stopped maintaining - and never mind modernizing - our infrastructure. As a result there is a LOT of work that needs doing. And there are a very, very large number of unemployed people. Hmmm... more »

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Paying For Tax Cuts At The Top By Cutting Pensions For The Rest

By Dave Johnson
February 17, 2010

Today's new York Times has a front-page story (really an editorial) that promotes cutting the Social Security pensions of Americans and other things that we as citizens are entitled to. more »

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Common Sense on Budgets

By Robert Borosage
February 2, 2010

Amid the blizzard of statistics, trillion-dollar deficits, howls about impending bankruptcy, and Republican stupocrisy that surround the budget, it is worth repeating a little common sense.

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Save Social Security - 10 Questions for the Deficit Commission

By Dave Johnson
December 22, 2009

It is possible that there is going to be a “deficit commission” to look for ways to reduce our country’s budget deficits. I have some questions for them to ask to help get things started in the right direction: more »

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Should Taxes Be Progressive?

By Mark Thoma
From economistsview.typepad.com
December 16th, 2009

economistsview.typepad.com — When the flow of profits is distorted and some people fail to get what they deserve while others get more than they've earned, there is harm from inequality, social welfare can be improved through redistribution.

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The Estate Tax Battle: Who's Really Winning?

By Sam Pizzigati
December 6, 2009

The U.S. House of Reps has voted to extend the only federal tax levy on grand accumulations of private wealth. But that extension keeps in place all of George W.'s tax rate cuts on billionaire bequests.

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A New Economy from Old Roots?

By Dave Johnson
September 30, 2009

How do we build a new economy out of the collapse of the old economy? How do we start fresh to begin creating jobs again, while building in economic and environmental sustainability, as well as workplaces that respect human needs and rights? more »

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