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Today’s unemployment report, reflecting an anemic increase of only 69,000 new jobs in May and an unemployment rate up to 8.2 percent, is the best evidence yet that conservative obstruction measures that would put Americans back to work is crippling the economy.
Ruby Brown of Minneapolis says that for the past four years, she has been “struggling to keep Bank of America from taking my home,” trying to convince the bank to reset the principal on her mortgage to its current market value. But the bank has refused, and she fears marshals will be coming to evict her any day now.
By the time you read this, we should be at the 25th hour of what is, even though it shouldn’t be, one of those 24-hour stories, namely Chris Hayes’ comment about our country’s casual use of the word “hero” for all of our military personnel and the knee-jerk right-wing blowback.
The gauntlet has been thrown down in the tax fairness fight. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier today announced that House Republicans will schedule a vote before the August recess on making the Bush tax cuts permanent for everyone, including the rich and super-rich.
Thursday’s reports that unemployment claims are edging downward take on a slightly different cast after reading a complaint filed with the Labor Department detailing how a new Florida law is hindering unemploy
From the House Republicans whose leader, Speaker John Boehner, just three days ago claimed that “we can’t go on spending money we don’t have,” and “our economy is stuck in large part because it’s stuck with debt,”
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JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion bad bet has made it crystal clear: The Wall Street banksters are still recklessly gambling with government-guaranteed money. And the too-big-to-fail banks are still too big. Multibillonaire Peter G. Peterson’s Fiscal Summit may have started with conciliatory nods toward bipartisanship, but it did not climax that way. And that had to have been by design. The Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit started today with the dulcet tones of its billionaire conservative patron, Peter G. Peterson, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner singing in harmony. It was a melody fraught with danger. Senate Republicans today filibustered the effort to prevent federal student loan rates from doubling, once again obstructing the majority and putting the finances of millions of college students at risk for the sake of protecting the leather wallets of the 1 percent.Tell Congress End Too-Big-To-Fail Make Banking SAFE
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