Economy

Why California Politics Is Different from the Rest of the Country

By Don Hazen, Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

A glimmer of hope rests on the shoulders of a growing Latino population and innovative labor organizing.

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Coming Sequester Cuts Will Make Most of Americans' Lives Worse -– And People Are Mobilizing

By Dave Johnson / Blog for Our Future

Excuse Me, Mr. President -- A $9 Minimum Wage Is Still Going to Leave a Lot of People at the Poverty Level

By Jim Hightower / AlterNet

Bank of America v. The American Homeowner

By Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

How EPA Climate Protection Can Be America's Greatest Jobs Producer

By Jeremy Brecher / AlterNet

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Everything You Heard About the Deficit Falling Is Wrong

Matt Taibbi: Public Unions Need to Stop Poisonous Koch Brothers From Buying Tribune Papers

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

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Economy

Barbara and John Ehrenreich: The Real Story Behind the Crash and Burn of America's Managerial Class

Barbara Ehrenreich, John Ehrenreich / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - New York Office

5 Signs Extreme Wealth Deadens the "Empathy" and "Honesty" Parts of the Brain

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Minimum Wage: Who Decided That Hard-Working Americans Should Fall Behind?

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

9 Economic Facts That Will Make Your Head Spin

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why Capitalist Predators Think 2013 Will Be the Best Year Ever

Slavoj Zizek / Comment Is Free

USA! USA! America Now Has Less Class Mobility Than Most of Europe

Alex Kane / AlterNet

The American Housing Market is Set to Screw People Far into the Future

Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Former Republican: How the GOP Turned Into a Racket Ripping Off Vulnerable Americans

Mike Lofgren / Huffington Post

ALEC's Plan to Kill Union Jobs Everywhere -- Even Outside the U.S.

Dave Saldana / AlterNet

How Conservatives Who Block Minimum Wage Hikes are Destroying the Economy

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

Could You Live on $2.13 Per Hour -- Even With Tips? That's the Minimum Wage for Waiters

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Obama's Call to Raise the Minimum Wage Met by Republican Howls and Disinformation

Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress

Love in the Time of Layoffs

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

We Can Work Less, Make More Money and Save the Planet

David Rosnick / AlterNet

Obama's Call for Rise in Minimum Wage Draws Predictable Republican Response

Daily Kos

How Congress Could Fix Its Budget Woes, Permanently

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

Privatizing Roads, Bridges, Schools and Energy Grids? Corporatism Pervades SOTU

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

What, No Deficit?

Dave Johnson / Campaign for America's Future

How Our Machine-Based Way of Life is Not Only Destroying Nature, It Is Also Destroying Us

Salvatore Folisi / Xander Stone Ink

Bank of America Bombshell: Whistleblowers Reveal Orchestrated Coverup and Massive Borrower Harm

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Corporate-backed 'Fix the Debt' Campaign Only Wants to Protect Wall Street

Dean Baker / AlterNet

State of the Union: Obama Slams Republicans; Calls for Minimum Wage Raise, Action on Climate Change, Immigration Reform and Gun Control

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Exclusive Interview: Meet Alexis Tsipras, the Most Dangerous Man in Europe

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

3 Reasons Even Right-Wing Republicans Should Like Unions

David Cohen / AlterNet

Coming Tuesday (Hopefully): The State of the Union's Economy

Robert B. Reich / Robert Reich's Blog

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