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POPSIn MN, It's Still the Al Franken Decade The poll isn't without controversy, however. A SurveyUSA poll finds almost the opposite, with Coleman leading Franken by 10. Still, there's something hinky about SUSA's polling in Minnesota. It's been in wild disagreement with most other polls. Coleman points to SUSA's numbers, but I doubt that -- in his little heart of hearts -- he finds much comfort in them. "DFL" is Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, BTW. The official name of the state Democratic party.
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POPSJob Losses Highest in Five Years Why is it that what invariably seems to trickle down from trickle-down economic practices is high unemployment? Could it be that the tricklers tend to hoard and offshore wealth instead of investing it in industries that hire people into good paying jobs?
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POPSJobless claims at 7-year high How could anyone vote for 4 more years of it? Republican policies get thousands of our soldiers killed, push jobs overseas, devalue US international influence, prevent millions of us from getting medical treatment, devastate our economy - and half our voters limp to the polls to beg for more.
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POPSBailout Q & A This is the first article that I've seen that addresses some of my questions - pretty interesting reading.
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POPSSocial welfare programs do not keep a country from prosperity
The Nordic states have also worked to keep social expenditures compatible with an open, competitive, market-based economic system. Tax rates on capital are relatively low. Labor market policies pay low-skilled and otherwise difficult-to-employ individuals to work in the service sector, in key quality-of-life areas such as child care, health, and support for the elderly and disabled. The results for the households at the bottom of the income distribution are astoundingly good, especially in contrast to...American social policy. The U.S. spends less than almost all rich countries on social services for the poor and disabled, and it gets what it pays for: the highest poverty rate among the rich countries and an exploding prison population. Actually, by shunning public spending on health, the U.S. gets much less than it pays for, because its dependence on private health care has led to a ramshackle system that yields mediocre results at very high costs.
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POPSHistory Is Repeating, When Will the Masses Wake Up? "At the present time, behind the scenes there is a night-and-day movement of collateral. A visiting Englishman leaving the United States a few weeks ago said things would look better here after "they cleaned up the mess at Washington." Cleaning up the mess consists of fooling the people and making them pay a second time for the bad foreign investments of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. It consists of moving that heavy load of dubious and worthless foreign paper — the bills of wig makers, brewers, distillers, narcotic drug vendors, munition makers, illegal finance drafts, and worthless foreign securities — out of the banks, and putting it on the back of American labor. That is what the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is doing now. They talk about loans to banks and railroads." ...
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POPSWorking night shifts raises cancer risk The report refers specifically to individuals who work nights in the fields of health care, security, transportation, media and the military. Some 10 percent of the population consistently works night shifts, according to the report, and 25 percent work such shifts occasionally.
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POPSIf You Like Michigan's Economy, You'll Love Obama's Remarkably, a third of all the jobs in the U.S. in the last 10 years were created in these three states. While the population of the three highest-performing states grew twice as fast as the national average, per-capita real income still grew by $6,563 or 21.4% in Texas, Florida and Arizona. That's a $26,252 increase for a typical family of four. By comparison, Illinois gained only 122,000 jobs, Ohio lost 62,900 and Michigan lost 318,000. The playing field among the states was not flat. Business conditions were better in the successful states than in the lagging ones. Capital and labor gravitated to where the burdens were smaller and the opportunities greater. So what do the state laboratories tell us about the potential success of the economic programs presented by Barack Obama and John McCain? Mr. McCain will lower taxes. Mr. Obama will raise them, especially on small businesses.
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POPSState Anti-Immigrant Laws Working? Experts say no - just following the money and moving to where jobs are more plentiful. When the economy goes sour it makes nomads or migrants out of lots of people wandering across America looking for a future and work?
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POPSWal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win they are feeling the pressure... For a humorous perspective Watch the video "Your New Job" at http://www.freechoiceact.org/page/s/yournewjob?source=bnf0908 And sign the petition!!!
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POPSMystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
(cont.)The U.S. government has subsidized this flight of capital by granting corporations tax concessions on their overseas investments, and even paying some of their relocation expenses---much to the outrage of labor unions here at home who see their jobs evaporating. The transnationals push out local businesses in the Third World and preempt their markets. American agribusiness cartels, heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, dump surplus products in other countries at below cost and undersell local farmers. As Christopher Cook describes it in his Diet for a Dead Planet, they expropriate the best land in these countries for cash-crop exports, usually monoculture crops requiring large amounts of pesticides, leaving less and less acreage for the hundreds of varieties of organically grown foods that feed the local populations. By displacing local populations from their lands and robbing them of their self-sufficiency, corporations create overcrowded labor markets of desperate people
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POPSU.S. Senate Approves Highway Trust Fund Fix Road builders lobby breathes a sigh of relief, for now. The bill had been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, but, because of a technical modification in Senate-passed version, it now goes back to House. Road building trade association notes that it and 22 other trade groups and labor unions wrote a letter yesterday in support of the Senate bill.
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