In Wake of Arizona Law, Labor Unites Behind Immigration Reform | CommonDreams.org
www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/28-1
For most of their history, labor unions opposed attempts at loosening immigration laws and often threw their weight behind restrictionist measures.
John Petro: Living Wage Law Would Create Benefits for Business, City's Economy
www.huffingtonpost.com/john-petro/living-wage-law-would-cre_b_628187.html
This weekend, in response to the hottest legislative issue in City Hall right now, the Daily News ran two opinion pieces on a bill that would guarantee living wages to all workers at city-subsidized development projects
War on Public Workers | The Nation
www.thenation.com/article/war-public-workers
Conservatives have declared a new class war, but it's not on bankers earning seven-figure bonuses. Instead, as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels told Politico recently, the "new privileged class in America" is government employees, who "are better paid than the people who pay their salaries." We have to escape "public sector unions' stranglehold on state and local governments," agreed Mort Zuckerman, billionaire editor of U.S. News & World Report, "or it will crush us.
Our views: Damaged democracy (June 29) | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
www.floridatoday.com/article/20100629/OPINION/100628014/1004/opinion/Our+views++...
A senseless loophole in Florida election laws will shut out some Brevard County voters at the polls this August.
Brevard officials want your questions about county budget | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
www.floridatoday.com/article/20100629/NEWS01/6290325/1086/
Do you know how much money Brevard County government plans to spend in a year? It's $1.1 billion.
As the county commissioners and their staff address difficult decisions in crafting a spending plan for the coming year, they want to hear your questions and comments.
In Deficit "Town Meetings," People Reject America Speaks Stacked Deck | OurFuture.org
www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010062527/deficit-town-meetings-people-reject-amer...
On Saturday, the group known as America Speaks (funded by Wall Street mogul Peter G. Peterson and two other foundations) brought together several thousand people in meetings in 60 cities. They gave participants misleading background information about the Federal deficit and economic options to achieve fiscal "balance" and future prosperity.
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Millionaires Killing Jobs
blog.aflcio.org/2010/06/25/millionaires-killing-jobs/
Today, 1.2 million jobless workers lose their extended unemployment insurance (UI) because some Senate millionaires think a $300 a week unemployment check will make people too lazy to look for a job
Poll: Tea Partiers Want Gov’t to Protect Manufacturing Jobs, Impose Tariffs to Safeguard Environment « SpeakEasy
blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/26/poll-tea-partiers-want-gov%e2%80%99t-to-...
One of the organizing principles of the conservative-led tea party movement is an “aversion to big government,” with tea party organizers turning their ire on comprehensive health reform, clean energy legislation, and even mandatory trash collection.
The temptations of Scott Brown - Manu Raju and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com
www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39083.html
When Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown addressed supporters after his upset victory in January, he declared there would be “no more closed-door meetings or back-room deals by an out-of-touch party leadership.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/opinion/28krugman.html
Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass unemployment that followed the financial crisis of 1929-31.
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