Supporting the Troops? - A Harpers Index-style list from the The Institute for Southern Studies in their periodic email publication Facing South: Percentage of...
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Good News on Child Health Insurance - The 1997 State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is paying off: Overall, 7.8 million children were without health insurance at...
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Why School Testing is Evil - "No Child Left Behind" (or as a reporter friend called it, "No Child Gets Out Alive") establishes the principle of...
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July 30, 2003
Will Bustamante Take Over? - Well this from Sac Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub could upset the applecart: Former state legislator Barry Keene, the author of...
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Fed Upbeat Report Unconvincing - An optimistic "Beige Book" report from the Federal Reserve seems to indicate that economic prosperity is just around the corner....
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What is Judicial Activism? - From comments: By your definition, Nathan, most of the Supreme Court's decisions throughout its history could be deemed "activist." Your...
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July 29, 2003
More Comments on Iraq War - A bit of traffic (mostly from here) has picked up on the old Where the Peace Movement Went Wrong post....
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How to Help Verizon Workers - A bunch of folks in comments have noted the Verizon ads talking about how wonderful it is to work at...
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1 in 5 Unemployed in Recent Years - Somehow, just looking around my circle of friends, a new report revealing that 20% of the population has been unemployed...
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Backlash on Gay Rights Decision - My position against liberal judicial activism on the Court, including opposing last month's sodomy decision, dismays some progressives who think...
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July 28, 2003
The Next VP? - Democrats Nominate Richardson To Lead 2004 Convention Democratic Party leaders nominated New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be chairman of...
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Why Does the GOP Hate Our Troops? - Seriously, I actually don't get why the GOP, having increased the military budget by tens of billions of dollars, is...
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Edwards Backs Verizon Strikers - Unions are demanding more than promises of good policy from friendly politicians. They are demanding support in their life-and-death organizing,...
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125,000 New Voters in Florida? - In a major legal settlement, Florida has agreed that 125,000 former felons in Florida were illegally denied information on how...
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Lies Around Medical Malpractice - This is a rather startline story find by Calpundit about a hearing on medical malpractice in Florida, where the witnesses...
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Labor Studies v. Business Schools - Here is a perfect example of why all the conservative whining about "leftism" in academia is such rotgut. Frontpage magazine...
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July 22, 2003
GOP Oil Drug Pushers - I watched Bill Maher's Victory Begins at Home last night where he makes the simple point that when America has...
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Rightwing Censorship Amok - The Los Angeles Times published this cartoon yesterday: The cartoonist is a conservative and the message is about Bush's supposed...
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July 18, 2003
Bush- Sinking in Polls - I haven't been quoting polls too much recently, since they are so fuzzy with the noise of war support and...
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Avoiding the Post-Recall Election - Anyone notice that California has a lieutenant governor, who takes office if the governor leaves office? Apparently, the lieutenant governor,...
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More on California Recall - In comments, Preston writes: Given a choice between 2 or 3 or more Republicans and an incumbent Democrat even Gray...
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July 17, 2003
Crazy and Arrogant McAuliffe - This is crazy: The chairman of the Democratic National Committee vowed Thursday that no Democrat will run to replace Gov....
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Sex and Statistics - One thing to remember about surveys is that odd or strange results often can be explained by a simple answer:...
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Why "Tax Cut Stimulus" Fails - You know Bush's tax cut solution for the economy is useless when the apostles of Reagan's tax cuts declare it...
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More Tax Breaks for Rich - And the giveaways goes on. This is from the subscription-required BNA Daily Labor Report, so I'll post a good chuck...
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Don't you feel Safer? - The Bush administration working for you: The Department of Agriculture began a new inspection system last fall and reduced the...
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Mexico Turns Left - Following other Latin American countries in South America, Mexico News > Mexico -- Mexican voters lash out; Fox's party feels...
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Stop Block Granting Medicaid - The Bush administration has been allowing states to monkey with Medicaid benefits, a first step towards block granting money to...
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July 06, 2003
BTW I like Dean - For those who think I've been too hard on Dean and not appreciative enough of his grassroots energy, they should...
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A Yale Union Blog - Check out this Yale Insider blog sponsored by unions at Yale university. A nice innovation for unions to use the...
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Bush is Killing the Economy - Unemployment soared officially to 6.4 percent in June with a revision said payrolls fell 70,000 in May instead of the...
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July 01, 2003
Anti-Freedom Views of the Right - Today, victims of police violence during the nonviolent antiwar march on February 15, filed suit in federal court against the...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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