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Bernanke: Mideast Threat to US Economy Is Mild -- For Now
By Joseph SchumanThe spike in fuel prices, sparked by Mideast turmoil, currently poses only a mild threat of broader inflation because the ailing U.S. jobs market has kept a lid on wages, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today. But a continuing rise in the prices of oil and other commodities like ...
Wisconsin Protests: Far From the Madison Crowd
By Robert and Donna Trussell
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Wisconsin Protesters: Can You Spare Some Solidarity?
By Donna Trussell
Sorry, Wisconsin protesters. I want to root for unions. But I can't. That's because they're only for the working man and woman. They don't seem to care about the unemployed and the legions of Americans forced into part-time work. As depicted in the British comedy "I'm All Right Jack" -- I'm all ...
Ireland's Ruling Party Crushed at Polls in Fallout From Failed Economy
By Tom Diemer
No luck for Ireland's ruling party. The government in power paid a price Friday for presiding over an economy that went through the floor when a housing bubble burst, strapping the banks that made the loans and forcing the country to take a huge international bailout. Fianna Fail (from the Irish, ...
Wisconsin Workers Get Support from Poland's Solidarity Trade Union
By David GibsonThe Polish trade union Solidarity, whose protests in the early 1980s helped precipitate the downfall of Soviet communism, has embraced the cause of Wisconsin's protesting public workers. Piotr Duda, head of the 700,000-member "Solidarnosc" trade union, wrote that on behalf of his organization he ...
Wisconsin Protests Divide Neighbors, Friends, Families
By Lisa HolewaMILWAUKEE -- Brittany Bowes is a public school teacher who has joined the tens of thousands of people protesting in Madison, spending three days at the Capitol to make her voice heard -- much to her family's disappointment. "I saw the teachers and the local people, the firefighters, the police, all ...
Providence, RI, School Board Votes to Lay Off All Teachers
By Dana ChivvisThe Providence School Board has voted 4-3 to send dismissal notices to all of the Rhode Island school district's 1,926 teachers. Thursday night's meeting was held in a school gymnasium to accommodate the more than 700 teachers who turned out to voice their opposition to the move. The board vote ...
Poland in 1980 and Wisconsin in 2011: History Rhymes
By Gerald J. Beyer
Mentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes. And there are some ...
Revolts From Wisconsin to Libya Pose Economic Threats
By Joseph SchumanAmericans are more confident about the state of the economy than at any point in the past three years. But the world may soon burst their bubble. The Conference Board said today that its consumer confidence index for February leaped to 70.4 from a level of 64.8 for the previous month. Though still ...
Two Ohios: Obama Talks Jobs in Cleveland, While Workers Rally in Columbus
By Tom Diemer
President Obama stuck to his script in Cleveland Tuesday -- promoting economic competitiveness -- even as labor unrest captured the public's attention 140 miles to the south at the Statehouse in Columbus and also in neighboring Indiana. Obama was greeted at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ...
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For women, and men too, weary of nuance and ...
Can the Girl Scouts Help Balance Georgia's Budget?
By Joanne Bamberger
If Georgia lawmakers get their way, ...
Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.
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