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Archive for March, 2009

A Good Time To Die?

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

By Nate Silver, www.fivethirtyeight.com
Because of a law that the Congress passed in 2001, the estate tax, which at is 45 percent this year with an exemption up to $3.5 million in assets, will be entirely repealed in 2010 before abruptly returning to its former rate of 55 percent rate in 2011.
Think there might be a few rich [...]

Specter Will Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

By Sam Stein, Huffington Post.

UPDATE: Senator Specter ended speculation on where he would come down on the Employee Free Choice Act by declaring, on the Senate floor, that he would oppose the legislation until the economy improves.
“The problems of a recession make this a particularly bad time to enact Employee’s choice legislation,” he said. “Employers [...]

Welcome to Double-Standard America

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

By David Sirota, Salon.com.
United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard likes to say that Washington policymakers “treat the people who take a shower after work much differently than they treat the people who shower before they go to work.” In the 21st century Gilded Age, the blue-collar shower-after-work crowd is given the tough, while the white-collar shower-before-work [...]

Dems Introduce Vital Protections for Workers; Corporate America Responds With a Big Lie

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet.
On Tuesday, House Democrats introduced the Employee Free Choice Act, a vitally important package of protections that would help restore working people’s much-denuded right to join a union if they so desire.  
There’s nothing more terrifying to corporate America than the prospect of dealing with its workforce on an even playing field, [...]

Health Care Reform: Fixing a Broken System

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 – 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Brown University’s Starr Auditorium
MacMillan Hall – Room 117
167 Thayer Street, Providence, RI
47 Million Americans are Uninsured or Underinsured
Millions are Denied Coverage
Medical and Prescription Costs are Skyrocketing
Learn about the problems with the present health care delivery system and listen to the necessary solutions to solve the current crisis from physicians, [...]

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