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China’s Currency Manipulation: Flipping Off America
Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard USW International President China is disrespecting America. The Asian giant is an international trade outlaw, and U.S. manufacturers and workers are its crime victims....
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Welcome Home, Tire Jobs
Dave Johnson By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future Today the US Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk filed two complaints with the World Trade Organization (WTO). The first alleges...
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The One Thing
Mike Lux By Mike Lux Author, “The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be” There’s all the usual post-election palaver that happens after a Democratic loss: Republican and right-wing...
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Revolt of the Populist Swing Voters
Mike Lux By Mike Lux Author, “The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be” I was going to call this post Revolt of the Screwed, but decided that I didn’t want to get readers who were...
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Why Obama Wins on Foreign Policy and Gays but Loses on Economics and Taxes
Robert Reich By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Two important victories for President Obama this week — the New Start anti-ballistic missile treaty with Russia to...
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A Bold Way to Create Jobs
There’s a bold way to create jobs that’s being ignored by Washington! What’s the plan? Pass a federal law to return to our pre-1970 status of maintaining a positive overall annual balance of trade...
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Wisconsin Subterfuge Violates American Democratic Values
Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard USW International President Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his crew of country club conservatives this week brutalized the nation’s democratic traditions to secure...
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13 Workers Killed Each Day on the Job in 2010
By Tula Connell AFL-CIO Managing Editor Each day in 2010, 13 workers on average were killed on the job—some 4,690 workers—and an estimated 50,000 died from occupational diseases, according to the...
View ArticleRomney, Ryan, GOP Demand Obama Stop Strengthening Welfare Work Mandate
Republicans in two Congressional committees voted last week to press forward with legislation that would deny states the flexibility they requested to help more welfare recipients get jobs. That’s...
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You Are Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago as Government Policies Help Create...
Four years ago, American manufacturing was suffering. In September 2008, after nine consecutive months of brutal job losses, the economy lost another 51,000 jobs in manufacturing. By the end 2008,...
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