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Countercyclical Capital
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And it's in the shadow of the dome, so to speak, that official Washington lives and works. If you spend your life helping businesses and banks escape gratuitous federal regulations or fend off... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Economy | 0 Comments |
Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated.
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Since I couldn't write it better myself, I borrowed the New York Times' headline to this story by Steven Greenhouse, which reports on a study finding that 68 percent of low-wage workers had... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Economy | 0 Comments |
Obama has reduced the deficit.
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One more post to round out this thrilling week of new budget projections. You've probably noticed that the storyline has been entirely about how the Obama administration has increased the deficit and... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Economy | 0 Comments |
The Banks Are Big Because the Financial Crisis Isn't Over.
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In response to a new Washington Post story on how the financial sector's major players have just gotten bigger as a result of the government's drastic rescue efforts, Matt Yglesias comments
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Economy | 0 Comments |
The Gulf Coast is America's Lower 9th Ward.
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Four years after Katrina, government bodies are still shuffling about trying to figure out what is the best future policy for a sustainable, prosperous New Orleans. The challenges facing the Gulf... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on StimulusPlan | 0 Comments |
Suburban Ghetto
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When news of a central American gang crisis hit in 2003, it ignited a nation well-primed to expect that violent immigrants were on the verge of invading its cul-de-sacs. The national reaction fit a... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Immigration | 0 Comments |
Giving Up on Grassley, and What Comes Next for Health Care Reform.
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Ezra has a good catch with this fundraising letter [PDF] sent out by Senator Chuck Grassley, ostensibly the chief Republican negotiator on health care reform:
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
The Guns of August, and Why the Right Was So Adept at Using Them on Health Care.
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What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
Health Care's Lowest Foes
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H.L. Mencken famously observed that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Were he alive today and watching our debate over health-care reform, he would nod... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
Lunchtime Lessons from New Orleans
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President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I? So asked a pigtailed black girl plastered on buses and billboards around Washington, D.C. The White House blasted the political ad,... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
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