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Tax credits for hiring veterans
Jan 25, 2012 (15:48:00)
There has been a lot of interest in the Vow to Hire Heroes Act. This is the Act that the Midwest Region Laborers Veterans Committee has been spreading the word about that provides tax credits to employers who hire unemployed veterans
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LiUNA slams Keystone denial
Jan 20, 2012 (09:28:00)
Washington, D.C. (January 18, 2012) – LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – called the reported decision by the Obama Administration today to block permitting for Keystone XL pipeline “politics at its worst.”
Last fall the Administration delayed consideration of a permit for the pipeline until after the 2012 elections
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Free enterprise on trial
Jan 17, 2012 (12:24:00)
Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as "free enterprise on trial" - defining free enterprise as achieving success through "hard work and risking-taking
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America isn't a corporation
Jan 13, 2012 (17:02:42)
“And greed — you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.”
That’s how the fictional Gordon Gekko finished his famous “Greed is good” speech in the 1987 film “Wall Street.” In the movie, Gekko got his comeuppance
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NFL players blast proposed Indiana "right to work" law
Jan 09, 2012 (15:12:00)
WASHINGTON—As NFL players, we know our success on the field comes from working together as a team. We’re not just a team of football players—we’re also the fans at games and at home, the employees who work the concession stands and the kids who wear the jerseys of our favorite football heroes
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Obama's New Square Deal
Dec 08, 2011 (17:25:41)
Washington - President Obama has decided that he is more likely to win if the election is about big things rather than small ones. He hopes to turn the 2012 campaign from a plebiscite about the current state of the economy into a referendum about the broader progressive tradition that made us a middle-class nation. For the second time, he intends to stake his fate on a battle for the future
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USA Today: Bridge our divides with infrastructure
Nov 10, 2011 (07:34:19)
Liberals and conservatives agree on little these days, and in the matter of the federal budget, virtually nothing. Recently, however, people from opposite sides of the aisle — the two of us — thought we had found an exception.
The other, liberal economist Robert Frank, almost concurred
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The occupiers have struck a responsive chord
Nov 01, 2011 (14:10:00)
A combination of police crackdowns and bad weather are testing the young Occupy movement. But rumors of its demise are premature, to say the least. Although numbers are hard to come by, anecdotal evidence suggests the movement is growing.
As importantly, the movement has already changed the public debate in America
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