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Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile

Commentary by Black Kos Editor Deoliver47The NAACP Does the Right (Left) ThingLast Friday, the NAACP gave Van Jones its highest award, "The President's Award", and Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and...

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States Slow to Spend Weatherization Dollars

A year ago, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, nearly $5 billion was set aside in state and tribal grants to weatherize 590,000 of the homes of low-income residents over a period of...

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Sadly for Republicans, the Stimulus Stimulated

"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that's our target market." Judging from the rhetoric of House Minority Leader John Boehner, that's the Republican mantra when it comes to the...

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Triple Whammies, Double Dips and Job One

If creating new jobs is Job One for the Obama administration, then the past 24 hours have been a mixed blessing.  Thursday brought good news of a continued if slow decline in first-time jobless claims,...

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Obama Targets States' Drag on Economic Recovery

Over the weekend, President Obama wrote Congressional leaders urging action on a $50 billion aid package for the states designed in part to avert "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters."...

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What Washington Giveth, the States Taketh Away

By almost any measure, the $787 billion stimulus program has worked exactly as designed.  The overwhelming consensus of economists is that the federal package has been a success, while the...

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McCain Adviser, CBO Back Need for Jobs Bill

One day before Friday's dismal jobs report confirmed the pace of the U.S. recovery has slowed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the extension of unemployment benefits which "injects demand into...

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Conservatives Vote to Torpedo Our Economy

Congress is out this week for the July 4 recess, and unemployment benefits will have run out for about 2.5 million Americans by the time they return on Monday since the Senate filibustered legislation...

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Study Finds U.S. Recovery Programs Averted "Depression 2.0"

Friday's news that U.S. second quarter economic growth slipped to 2.4% produced shared concern across the political spectrum about the sluggish pace of the recovery.  But among economists if not...

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MO-Sen: Blunt's stimulus hypocrisy

Count Roy Blunt among the stimulus hypocrites. ThinkProgress chronicles how, after voting against the the recovery act, but before his recent attacks on Democratic opponent Robin Carnahan for...

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Republican Pledge: A Rotten Egg for the Middle Class

This week Republicans made a Pledge to America in a bid to win votes in the mid-term elections. The GOP promised to indulge the rich with tax breaks and penalize the middle class with rescinded health...

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Jeff Reed: They're human beings, they're in love, let them marry

Curtis here, my candidate Jeff Reed took part in a virtual Q+A with the 20,000 member Beer Party group on Facebook. We had a good exchange, Jeff showed why his candidacy is worth supporting.Jeff Reed...

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I No Vote Feingold Just Cuz?

A Wisconsin voter and former supporter of Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold recently stated that she won't vote for the senator in the upcoming mid-term elections because Feingold supported the...

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Kat's Daily Obama Administration Report, 11/28/10

Hi, all.  Today's report features:• Recovery Act projects: Helping people live better in Tennessee; nuclear waste handling in South Carolina; communications for the deaf in Louisiana, and a...

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States that spent stimulus on repairs and public transportation created more...

Despite evidence showing that spending on public transportation and road and bridge repairs produces far more jobs and does so faster than new construction, most states and Metropolitan Planning...

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The Great Tax Cutter? Obama, Not Reagan

This weekend's Reagan centennial predictably produced paeans to the great tax cutter who never was.  After all, in the wake of the his budget-busting 1981 tax cuts which ultimately tripled the national...

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The Staten Island Democratic Association (SIDA) celebrates 3 Million jobs...

For Immediate Release:  Feb 16, 2011 Contact: Roy Moskowitz, Reciprocal Results (718) 370-3977 Mobile: (917) 992-1873 Email: R2ceo@aol.com  Richard Reichard SIDA ((718) 440-6717 Email:...

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AP underplays stimulus results

Good question from John Aravosis:Pretty good AP story about how the GOP is basically lying about the effect of their budget cutting, and the stimulus, on job creation (their budget cutting will kill...

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A Birthday Gift for President Obama

In 2008, I gave my money and my vote to Barack Obama.  With somewhat less enthusiasm, I'll do the same in 2012.  But on this his 50th birthday, it's time for a gift the President could really use.After...

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Evaluating the stimulus: Yes, it worked, but there's more to the story

The bad news from the CBO has elicited a predictable response. House Speaker John Boehner called the outlook "underwhelming" and blamed President Barack Obama. The jobless rate in 2012 is expected to...

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