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The latest attack on green jobs attempts to portray the U.S. Department of Labor’s green jobs training program as a failure and claims that President Obama failed on his promise to create 5 million green jobs by the end of the decade.
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J. Mijin Cha

From Demos and ACLU.

Testimony and Public Comment
ACLU
AUGUSTA-- This week, national voting rights organizations, the ACLU and Demos, as well as the local ACLU of Maine call upon the Secretary of State to cease and desist actions that threaten and intimidate legitimate voters, particularly students singled out by the Maine Republican Party earlier this
Press release/statement
NEW YORK— The national public policy center Demos welcomes the expanded availability of language assistance for limited-English-proficient voters in future elections, as announced yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase was occasioned by the Census Bureau’s recalculation of Latino, Asian
Press release/statement
Clean energy skeptics have seized on the failure of Solyndra to argue that scaling up renewable sources is a pipe dream. They should visit Germany.
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J. Mijin Cha
A review of early Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber’s latest book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years .
In the media
A few decades ago, it also would have been difficult to imagine how such a Kol Nidre service could have come together. Like Occupy Wall Street and its growing number of spin-offs, these events happen because of the extensive use of social media by savvy organizers who don’t need or seek the
In the media
Jane Eisner
#OWS arrives at Washington Sq. Park on Saturday, October 8th. Credit: nyclovesnyc.blogspot.com
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Rakim Brooks
Corporations are pushing hard to bring back billions in cash now stashed overseas at very low tax rates. They argue that, in effect, they should be able to avoid paying normal taxes on huge overseas profits because all sorts of great things will happen once this money comes home. The last time that
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David Callahan
So it turns out that I'm not the only one tired of comparisons between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
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David Callahan