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On December 28th Unemployment Benefits End for 1.3 Million Families — Merry Christmas from the
Three days after Christmas, unemployment benefits end for 1.3 million people who have exhausted their state unemployment benefits, but...
Jay Murdock
Dec 25, 20135 min read


Income Inequality Didn’t Happen By Accident (Video)
#economy #Unemployment #economicdisparity #EconomicCrisis #MiddleClass #RobertReich #Jobs
Jay Murdock
Sep 12, 20131 min read


Across Generations, the Jobs Numbers Show We’re All in This Together
Richard (RJ) Eskow – Writer;Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future Posted: 09/10/2013 1:40 am We’re in the midst of the worst...
Jay Murdock
Sep 10, 20133 min read


Syria and the Reality at Home in America
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, ‘Beyond Outrage’ Posted:...
Jay Murdock
Sep 8, 20134 min read


Why Republicans Want Jobs To Stay Anemic
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton...
Jay Murdock
Aug 11, 20132 min read


Media Push Economic Inequality To The Backseat
ALBERT KLEINE – Media Matters May 14, 2013 Media outlets largely ignored economic inequality in discussions about the overall economy,...
Jay Murdock
May 14, 20132 min read


The Remarkable Renaissance of John Kasich
By Andy Kroll – Mother Jones May. 6, 2013 3:00 AM PDT John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, had hit rock bottom. It was March...
Jay Murdock
May 8, 20135 min read


Wealth Inequality: Core Challenge for National Security
By Edward Corcoran / Ret. Strategic Analyst, U.S. Army War College / 04/30/2013 America prides itself on being the Land of Opportunity,...
Jay Murdock
May 1, 20136 min read


America in Denial
Tavis Smiley – PBS talk show host, PRI radio host Posted: 09/24/2012 10:00 am Americans seem to be in a perpetual state of denial. About...
Jay Murdock
Sep 25, 20123 min read


How We Cured “The Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself
Barbara Ehrenreich – New York Times bestselling author Posted: 03/15/2012 9:44 am – Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com It’s been exactly...
Jay Murdock
Mar 15, 20125 min read


Machiavelli Never Lied
As Miles Sees It We’ve had such an overwhelming response to our post – “Santorum’s Wrong: There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Liberal’...
Jay Murdock
Mar 1, 20125 min read


The Republican Myth of Obama’s “Entitlement Society”
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy University of California at Berkeley. Wednesday, February 1, 2012 One of the few...
Jay Murdock
Feb 6, 20122 min read


Flat-Lining the Middle Class
Andy Kroll – Staff writer, Mother Jones magazine Posted: 10/6/11 04:55 PM ET Economic Numbers to Die For – Cross-posted from...
Jay Murdock
Oct 7, 20116 min read


The New GOP: Anti-Kids, Anti-Jobs, Anti-Business… And Anti-Republican
Richard (RJ) Eskow – Consultant, Writer, Senior Fellow with The Campaign for America’s Future – Posted: 9/9/11 03:21 PM ET This is not...
Jay Murdock
Sep 10, 20114 min read


Welfare Reform Leaving More In Poverty
Janell Ross: Janell.Ross@huffingtonpost.com Become a fan of this reporter Sasha Mandel says she never imagined going on welfare. But her...
Jay Murdock
Aug 23, 20119 min read


It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
by Bill Clinton June 19, 2011 Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource. The 42nd president has...
Jay Murdock
Jun 20, 201110 min read


The Non-Mandated Society: Why Obama’s Mortgage Programs Fail
Janet Ritz – Managing editor, the-environmentalist.org To expect banks to care about Americans over their global shareholders is asking...
Jay Murdock
Apr 5, 20117 min read


As CEO Pay Soars, Many New Jobs Fail To Provide A Living Wage
Yepoka Yeebo – The Huffington Post , First Posted: 04/ 1/11 02:57 PM ET Updated: 04/ 1/11 02:59 PM Despite a falling unemployment rate...
Jay Murdock
Apr 4, 20112 min read


Black Unemployment Rises Even As Overall Jobless Rate Drops
Janell Ross: Janell.Ross@huffingtonpost.com – First Posted: 04/ 1/11 07:58 PM ET Updated: 04/ 1/11 08:30 PM ET Two weeks. That was the...
Jay Murdock
Apr 3, 20115 min read


The Republicans’ Big Lies About Jobs (And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them)
Robert Reich Fmr. Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, Aftershock: ‘The Next Economy and America’s Future’ Posted: March...
Jay Murdock
Mar 23, 20113 min read
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