Archive for June, 2012

The Supreme Court and the “Broken Middle”

June 26, 2012
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By striking down the Montana campaign finance law that dates back to 1912, the Supreme Court steams ahead on its long-term project of turning our political system over to giant corporations. (So much for “states’ rights,” or the role of states as “incubators” for best practices). A century ago, the same year Montana passed...

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Welcome to the New Normal America

June 4, 2012
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The measly 69,000 private sector jobs added last month and the shrinking job count over the past few months illustrate our “new normal.” At this snail’s pace it will take a couple of decades (assuming there are no new crises) before we get back to the “good old days” of the 2005-unemployment rate. When...

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