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EconPop Series (6) The Coming $50 Billion Unemployment Bill
$10.9 Billion.That's the amount of money currently lent by Federal Department of Labor (DOL) to a group of 15 states whose unemployment insurance (UI) trust funds have run dry. And it's about to get a...
View ArticleThe Swan is still Black, and We're Still Screwed
Crossposted from the EconomicPopulist.Earlier this week, Bondad, Daily Kos's resident economic analyst suggested that there is a Black Swan myth. That's to say that the economy is starting to get...
View ArticleNELP: 1.5 Million to Exhaust Unemployment by December.
Crossposted from the Economic Populist.A little noticed report issued by the National Employment Law Project last Friday dropped something of a bombshell. By the end of this year 1.5 million Americans...
View ArticleKrugman: Welcome to "Economic Purgatory"
I really admire Paul Krugman. He's honest to a fault, and during his appearance on ABC's This Week that came out again. As he put it:We've got a problem with terminology because we usually say either...
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It's No ******* Wonder that State Governments Can't Pay Their Bills
One Big Hole The impending state budget crisis is something that has been covered in depth here. Just to remind everyone just how bad it's going to get, a picture that says a couple hundred billion...
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The Facts About Getting America Off Coal.
We all know the story by now. Flags across the country are at half mast, and in West Virginia 25 miners are dead. We depend on coal to keep the lights on, and as the chart below shows we got nearly...
View Article15% Wind Power by 2015: Federal Figures Show How
If you've logged onto Daily Kos today, you know that in Washington, D.C. they are celebrating Earth Day. We live in a different world than the one in which Earth Day celebrations got started 40 years...
View ArticleCan Wind Power Save School Budgets?
This past weekend, Laura Tyson made the case for a second stimulus in the New York Times. Things, you see, are looking down, particularly for the states. State budgets are being strained, and the...
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From the Basque Country to Bangladesh: A Climate Change Solution?
In the green north of Spain, the Basque region has emerged as a renewable energy powerhouse over the last decade. Although high population density, mountainous terrain, and a lack of appropriate...
View ArticleSeriously, Putting on Blackface Is Your Best Argument?
Sometimes I just ask, "Why?", and shake my head. This has been one of those weeks.I am a doctoral candidate at Miami University in Southwest Ohio. For all the Mayberry-esque charm, Oxford is a little...
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No One Expects the Spanish Revolution?
You wouldn't know it from the sub-rosa treatment being given to it in America, but Spain is currently experiencing something like the Arab Spring. As one Spanish author put it:Where freedom doesn't...
View ArticleExposing ALEC: WI-SEN GOP Info and ACTION
They meet in secret. They write our laws. And they want us silent.The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a controversial organization dedicated to bringing together state legislators,...
View ArticleDid ALEC Reimburse SC Gov Haley for Her Strip Club Excursion?
One of the fun things about having an RSS feed is that you can be almost supernaturally aware of the stuff that the various elements of the vast right wing conspiracy have been up to. For me it's the...
View ArticleMajor Doc Drop: All ALEC Model Legislation Leaked
Major news is breaking today out of Wisconsin. And it's not (directly) about the recall elections. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has gone live with a web site containing leaked copies of all...
View ArticleALEC Exposed: Bring on the Bribery Charges for GOP State Legislators?
This has been a full week for the people interested in the impact that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has had in undermining democratic (little D, you guys) government in the states....
View ArticleALEC Lobbies For Asbestos (and Lies about it)
On July 13, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) spokeswoman Raegan Weber responded to the growing criticism of that the organization is a channel for illegal lobbying with a simple...
View ArticleALEC Put Anti-Gov Bash on PA State Gov Tab
As if the irony of holding this year's national convention in a city almost killed by small government (New Orleans) wasn't enough, new evidence emerged yesterday that our friends in ALEC (American...
View ArticleOH-SB5: Control, Not Cost, Is The Issue.
It was a cold day when I went out the city council meeting in Middletown. Mark, the staff union VP, had got a call from one of the AFSCME guys in Columbus. One of the city councillors was introducing a...
View ArticleUS Chamber Wants Mandatory Indoctrination for High School Students
Digging through press reports on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) earlier this week I came upon something that piqued my interest. At this year's conference in New Orleans the US...
View ArticleIN House Passes Right To Work Bill
Horrible news from the Hoosier state. The Indiana House passed the right to work bill which has riled the state for the last month.The Indiana House voted 54-44 for the controversial “right to work”...
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