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8.6% Unemployment: Are we allowed to enjoy it?
An exuberant, yet tempered, cheer was most likely heard emanating from the Oval Office today as the latest jobs report was released confirming a significant drop in unemployment to 8.6%, its lowest...
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The Daily Scoop: Romney’s severely conservative budget promises
This article from the Washington Post is the second analysis of the fiscal plans Mitt Romney would implement should he be elected to occupy the White House. The first examination of his previously...
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The Daily Scoop Xtra: Romney to cut Depts of Ed & Housing
While Mitt Romney and his wife Ann revel in the “gift” that was Hilary Rosen’s comment about stay-at-home moms and the presidential candidate’s attempts turn the “war on women” around on the Democrats...
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French Reject Austerity; Are US Republicans Listening?
This past weekend French voters denied their incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy reelection in a resounding rejection of austerity policies which have kept European economic recovery out of reach. In...
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Daily Scoop Xtra: Ryan Budget May Cut Economic Data
Starting in the early 1990s, the U.S. Census Bureau asked Congress for extra funding each year so it could better analyze the services sector, which was quickly replacing industrial activity as the...
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In the Event of Austerity…”BREAK GLASS”
via #ThinkProgress (@nytimes) Tagged: 2012 election, Americans, austerity, community, Economy, Politics, Republicans, Romney, Spending cuts, survival guide, Voters
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Economy Worse Under Obama?
It’s been said before, many times in fact, but Senator Chuck Grassley’s recent reassertion that, “It [the economy] has gotten worse under Obama” continues to be a head scratcher for those with memories...
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Boehner’s Misconception of Governance & other Political Missteps
A few events over the intervening week held sway enough to make me ponder aloud, “Does John Boehner truly understand American governance?”; “Are the embassy attacks about US policy?” and “Does...
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Daily Scoop: GW’s Interior Secretary’s New Bathroom Cost WHAT?
As we watch the congressional Republicans demand sacrificial spending cuts for not hobbling the U.S. economy over raising the debt ceiling, the cost taxpayers paid for George Bush’s Interior...
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Dems’ Sequester Replacement Meets with Predictable Response
Senate Democrats will soon release a bill to counter massive cuts from the looming sequestration. In short the bill will institute a minimum tax rate for millionaires and eliminate some tax subsidies,...
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