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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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The party of limited government is now pushing for legislation that would allow the government to sneak a peek at some people’s private bank accounts.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows that long-term jobless people whose unemployment benefits were extended at the start of the recession did not become unwilling to work.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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A new study paints a sobering picture of the negative consequences austerity is having on the U.S. economy (and shows once more that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a consistent voice against austerity, is right).
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Keoni Cabral (CC BY 2.0)
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The U.S. economy appears to have added just enough jobs in April to keep pace with population growth, and the new positions are low wage and mostly nonunion.
Posted on May 3, 2013
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The economic crisis “ended only for the top 7 percent of households that have substantial holdings of stocks and bonds,” former Reagan Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts writes. “The other 93% of the American population is still in recession.”
Posted on May 1, 2013
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By Robert Reich — What is Washington doing to fix the economy? Worse than nothing. It has now adopted the same kind of austerity economics that’s doomed Europe—cutting federal spending and reducing total demand. And the sequester doesn’t end Sept. 30. It takes an even bigger bite out of the federal budget next fiscal year.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Only four lawmakers were in attendance at a congressional hearing about the important issue Wednesday.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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As lawmakers on both sides of the aisle spend copious amounts of time on their seemingly futile quest to reach an agreement about how to deal with the nation’s burgeoning debt, there’s an even bigger economic problem in the U.S.: unemployment.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Americans stuck in part-time work take little comfort in news that the nation has added jobs for 30 consecutive months.
Posted on Apr 20, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 16, 2013
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More than 100,000 unemployed professionals have left Greece amid a shrinking economy and a lack of jobs to seek better opportunities abroad in a trend that will dramatically impact the country for generations.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of all this is that we’re in the fifth year of a supposed economic recovery from the second-worst economic downturn of the past century, and we’re still not nearly back on track. Instead, we’ve had the most anemic recovery in history.
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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George W. Bush’s paintings do not reveal anything about the Iraq War, despite our wishing that they did; absurdly, the main argument against gay marriage is the state’s supposed need to regulate procreation; meanwhile, the entire Senate voted against Social Security cuts and the media said nothing. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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Despite the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report that U.S. unemployment fell to 7.7 percent in February, the real jobless rate stands at 23 percent.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The biggest problems we face are unemployment, stagnant wages, slow growth and widening inequality—not deficits. The major goal must be to get jobs and wages back, not balance the budget.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By Robert Reich — On Tuesday the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 14,270. The stock market is basically back to where it was in 2000, while corporate earnings have doubled since then. Yet the real median wage is now 8 percent below what it was then and unemployment remains sky-high. Why is the stock market doing so well, while most Americans are doing so poorly? Here are four reasons.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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“Today the stock market is high not from profits from expanding sales revenues, but from labor cost savings,” former Reagan Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts writes in CounterPunch.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Larry Wright, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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By Robert Reich — With consumers and government both spending less, businesses won’t hire more workers; they’ll fire more workers. That’s likely to happen in coming months. Anyone with half a brain should be able to understand all this. But apparently many in Washington don’t have half a brain.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that chamber’s Republicans will unanimously support a balanced-budget amendment, to be unveiled Wednesday as the core of the GOP’s fiscal agenda.There’s no chance of passage so why are Republicans pushing it now?
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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The new chief executive of the British bank is aiming to clean up his scam-ridden operation by dropping 3,700 employees from its structured capital markets unit and other offices.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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By Robert Reich — We are in the most anemic recovery in modern history, yet our political leaders in Washington aren’t doing squat about it.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The Conference Board reported Tuesday that the preliminary January figure for consumer confidence in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in more than a year. So why are consumers so glum? Because they’re deeply worried about their jobs and their incomes—as they have every right to be.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The news Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is that the U.S. job market is treading water. The number of new jobs created in December (155,000), and percent unemployment (7.8), were the same as the revised numbers for November.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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Fresh research has convinced scholars that even with progress in education, the black jobless rate in the United States remains twice that of whites because whites are typically better connected to people who can make introductions and are more likely to hear about job opportunities.
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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By Robert Reich — For the first time, the Federal Reserve has explicitly linked interest rates to unemployment. Rates will remain near zero “at least as long” as unemployment remains above 6.5 percent and if inflation is projected to be no more than 2.5 percent.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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By Mike Rose — Right at the point when they are most needed, our second-chance institutions are being severely threatened. Across the country, community colleges, adult schools and literacy programs are reporting record enrollments at the same time they have to trim staff, classes and services.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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As the “war on drugs” becomes increasingly militarized and violent, the symbolic phrase has become a bloody truth; more than 60 percent of Americans say that discrimination against the LGBT community is a serious issue; meanwhile, the NYPD thanks Occupy Wall Street for its help after Hurricane Sandy, albeit off the record. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Friday’s jobs report demonstrates an economy that’s still moving in the right direction but way too slowly, which is why Washington’s continuing obsession with the federal budget deficit is insane. Jobs and growth must come first.
Posted on Dec 9, 2012
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No, says the Nobel Prize-winning economist, who must be hoarse from repeating the same thing for the last four years: The United States is facing a jobs crisis, one that costs the savings, homes and dreams of millions of Americans and about $900 billion a year in lost productivity.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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The megabank announced the slashing of 4 percent of its workforce as a report telling of Hurricane Sandy’s negative impact on economic growth was published.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Robert Reich — The two most important trends, confirmed in Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are that (1) jobs slowly continue to return, and (2) those jobs are paying less and less.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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The nation’s jobless rate ticked up in October, even as employers added 171,000 workers to their payrolls, according to the latest jobs report—the last one before Election Day.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Robert Reich — In truth, no one should vote based on this batch of jobs numbers because a single month’s report isn’t a reliable gauge of which way the economy is heading.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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Unemployment in the eurozone has climbed to nearly 18.5 million people across 17 countries, with 146,000 people joining the ranks of the jobless just last month, The Guardian reports.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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