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The speech bears repeating.

Underemployment, the economic measure combining the percentage of unemployed workers with the percentage of part-timers desirious of full-time work, is something that most of us (but politicans in particular) generally ignore.

BOSTON - Citing clear evidence that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is failing to provide low-income residents with a legally-mandated opportunity to register to vote, attorneys from Demos, Project Vote, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association sent a pre-litigation notice letter on December 8, 2011 to Secretary of State William F. Galvin, on behalf of New England United for Justice.  The letter was also forwarded to the state’s human services officials.

Rising levels of student debt and its long-term harm on recent graduates has received considerable news coverage, especially given recent activism by students against this alarming trend.

Youth leaders and policy experts cited rising costs in education, health care, child care, and housing as key issues for winning the young vote in 2012.

Wisconsin's restrictive voter ID law functions like a de facto poll tax for over 175,000 older Wisconsinites who lack a government-issued photo ID.

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, but it still can be jolting in its most brazen forms. Exhibit A this week is opposition to an expanded and extended payroll tax cut.

There has rarely been a tax cut proposal that conservatives in Congress didn't love -- except, suddenly, this one. Critics of the extension -- which at a minimum would continue a 2 percent payroll tax cut for all workers -- make several arguments, all of them specious.

When people talk about energy independence, they are often referring to the U.S. not having to rely on other countries to provide our energy supply. Here’s what energy independence should mean: individual freedom from big corporations and price manipulation.