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Month: August 2011

The student loan crisis

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On August 24, 2011
Student loan debt in the US is approaching one trillion dollars (up from$180 billion a decade ago). Most of this debt is government-guaranteed and non-dischargeable -- a combination which has very predictable effects for debtors and tax payers (they get shafted), and equally predictable effects...
Jeffery Hirsch savages Joe Nocera's worthless column from yesterday, where Nocera says that Democrats cost the nation jobs because the NLRB is forcing Boeing to stop retaliating against its unions by moving jobs to non-union plants in South Carolina. In Nocera's mind, this is not...

What Could Obama Have Done?

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On August 23, 2011
I find myself in an unusual position of arguing that someone is underestimating presidential power. Armando asserts that I argue that we shouldn't care who is president. So, working backward from my clearly stated position, he seems to be saying that we shouldn't care about...

Labor Notes

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On August 22, 2011

Some items of note from the last week: 1. More than 90% of 62,000 United Food and Commercial Workers in southern California grocery stores voted to authorize a strike because.

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