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Robin Hood for Treasury Secretary. The gift that keeps on giving--$350...
Who wins: Robin Hood or the Grinch? The holidays are traditionally a time of gift giving and concern for the less fortunate. As the effects of the Great Recession linger, including 4.9 million...
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Robin Hood Aims to Become Secretary of U.S. Treasury
With resume in hand, Robin Hood made his way to the Department of the Treasury this morning intent on applying for the top post, Secretary of Treasury, United States of America. Timothy Geithner, who...
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Tax Avoidance On the Rise: It’s Twice the Amount of Social Security and Medicare
Common Dreams, 1/9/13 by Paul Buchheit Three trillion dollars a year. That's how much the wealthiest Americans avoid through the system of subsidies and schemes and sweet deals that deprive...
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We Need a Real Economy
NNU’s RoseAnn DeMoro joins national panel on call to eradicate U.S. povertyGET INVOLVED:
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What Ever Happened to “Good Jobs”
It is hard to pinpoint the precise moment when “good jobs” disappeared from national discourse, ignored by our leaders and the media that cover them. The phrase was invoked during President Obama’s...
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Treasury Nominee Jack Lew Needs to Get Behind the Robin Hood Tax
Advocates for American communities still reeling from the 2008 financial collapse are calling upon the Senate Finance Committee this week to press Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew for commitments to...
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SEQUESTRATION OPENS THE DOOR WIDER TO THE DISASTER THAT IS AUSTERITY
With the so-called sequestration looming in Washington, an automatic budget cut of $85 billion dollars that would cut jobs, education, environmental protection and more, much more, austerity appears to...
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Lew’s Latest Shows US Increasingly Out of Step in Holding Wall Street...
How far behind the rest of the world can we continue to fall on holding the Wall Street traders and tycoons to account for the mess they made of our economy? The sharp contrast Monday between the Obama...
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Robin Hood Tax and Sequestration
Despite mounting evidence that austerity measures lower growth and do further harm to American communities, proponents of the “sequestration” that took effect Friday are pressing forward with budget...
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Fair Taxation, Not Sequestration
Cuts in baby formula for the poorest amidst cries on Wall Street that “the market wants more austerity” As the harsh reality of the sequestration sets in, the opening salvo of a dire national...
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No More Excuses. Soaring Market Latest Evidence of Need to Tax Wall Street
Now that the boom times have returned for Wall Street with consecutive days of record market highs, the time for excuses must end, and the Obama administration and Congress should join with the other...
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Reports: US 'Corporate Tax Dodgers' Keeping More Money Overseas
Andrea Germanos, staff writer at Common Dreams Why should ordinary taxpayers have to sacrifice while highly profitable corporations are using accounting acrobatics and tax havens to avoid paying their...
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"Misled"-Citigroup Settles with Mortgage Investors, but Homeowners Continue...
This week, after four years of litigation, investors in Citigroup had their day in court, winning a settlement of $730 million in their class action suit brought in federal court in Manhattan. The...
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THE FACTS ARE ALREADY IN: NO TO KXL AND FRACKING
President Obama’s speech this week at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., acknowledged the over-arching significance of climate change, calling for America to “help forge a truly global solution...
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Spinning the Jobs Crisis
“Jobs Data Is Strong, but Not Too Strong, Easing Fed Fears,” announced the New York Times headline last week. What underpins this claim was an addition of 195,000 jobs in June, enough to sustain an...
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