Two Economies in America

Seeded on Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:11 AM EDT ()

This is a tale of two economies. In one of these economies, employees on Wall Street are pulling in record salaries that average around $1 million.

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Suicide: A Permanant Solution for Temporary Problems

Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:00 PM EDT

There have been times in my life when I thought that my problems were insurmountable. My burden in life was more than I could bear and it seemed as if my only option was to lie down and die.

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Fast-Charging Lithium Batteries Disputed

Seeded on Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:11 AM EDT (spectrum.ieee.org)

A new material enabling lithium-ion batteries to charge in just 10 to 20 seconds is either too good to be true or more than 10 times better than advertised.

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Beyond The Public Option

Seeded on Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:01 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Critics have charged that Obama's proposal to enact a new public health insurance plan to compete directly with private insurers would lead to a "government takeover" of the health care system.

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Hidden Cost of Health Care: Why Americans are Paying More but Getting Less

Seeded on Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:16 AM EDT (healthreform.gov)

With each passing year, Americans are paying more for health care coverage.

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Health Care Stories for America

Seeded on Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:44 AM EDT (stories.barackobama.com)

These stories — told by hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans who have watched their premiums rise faster than wages, and spiraling costs shackle American businesses — put a personal touch on the health care crisis

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Bush Officials Cash In as More Americans Lose Out

Seeded on Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:49 AM EDT (TomDispatch)

In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%.

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With Iran, Think Before You Speak

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:04 PM EDT (The New York Times)

THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama to denounce the voting as a sham and insert ourse …

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Armed Radical 'Minutemen' Kill Father and 9-Year-Old Daughter in Anti-Immigrant Hate | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Right-wing hate groups are hijacking America's economic distress to push their lethal agendas.

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Warning: Health Care Lobbyists Are Winning the Battle to Screw All of Us

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.

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Homegrown Terrorists Next Door

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:32 PM EDT (dissidentvoice.org)

Over the past two months, right-wing extremists have assassinated an abortion doctor in Wichita, Kansas, murdered three policemen in Pittsburgh, and killed a security guard while attempting to shoot up the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Rethinking Financial Regulation

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:04 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Today, the Obama administration is rolling out its plan for reforming the financial regulation system.

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Obama Enlisted a Wide Consensus on Finance Rules

Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:02 AM EDT (The New York Times)

President Obama's plan to reshape financial regulation, which he will unveil on Wednesday, is the product of weeks of meetings among government officials, financial experts, lawmakers, industry executives and lobbyists, many of whom were invited to help the White House draft th …

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Health Care -- The Public Option

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:57 PM EDT (Think Progress)

Few issues are more pressing to President Obama right now than health care reform.

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Will the Public Plan Make or Break Health Reform?

Seeded on Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:33 AM EDT (TIME)

With all the hand wringing over a public plan, you could be excused for thinking there is already a specific plan on the table. There is not.

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Obama, Like Clinton Before Him, is Blowing the Chance for Real Health Care Reform

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:17 PM EDT (thiscantbehappening.net)

If you want to fix the disaster that is called the American healthcare system, the first thing to do is to clearly point out what its major failings are, and there are two of these.

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CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 10:01 AM EDT (Reuters)

CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

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For Republicans, the Forces Aren't With Them

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:35 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

For the past few months, political analysts and demographers have been poring over the results of the 2008 election and comparing them with presidential results from the past two decades.

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The Healthcare War is Now Official

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:18 AM EDT (robertreich.blogspot.com)

The last president to successfully take on the giant health care lobbies was LBJ.

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Does the Right Want a Civil War?

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:04 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

People are being shot dead at the rate of several per month now. And it's figures on the Right that are putting the killers up to it.

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Senate Democrats unveil healthcare bill

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:04 PM EDT (Reuters)

Leading Senate Democrats unveiled on Tuesday a plan to reshape U.S. healthcare that calls for sweeping insurance market reforms and prohibits insurers from denying coverage or charging more due to medical history.

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A Seat at the Table for Single-Payer

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:11 AM EDT (The Nation)

This week, Senator Bernie Sanders has been firing on all cylinders as he continues his advocacy for real healthcare reform that controls costs while extending quality care to every American.

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Health Care Reform for Beginners: The Many Flavors of the Public Plan

Seeded on Tue Jun 9, 2009 2:02 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

For most of you, this is the big one. The inclusion of a strong public insurance option has become, for most observers I know, the single most recognizable marker for victory. If the public plan exists, liberals have won.

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Health Disparities: A Case for Closing the Gap

Seeded on Tue Jun 9, 2009 10:03 AM EDT (healthreform.gov)

The United States spends more than any other nation in the world on health care - in 2007 we spent $2.2 trillion.1 Despite consistent increases in spending, disparities among demographic groups persist.

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The Blame Election

Seeded on Tue Jun 9, 2009 9:33 AM EDT (openleft.com)

We had another one of those stories this week: economists delighted because we only lost 345,000 jobs last month because that was not as bad as expected.

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