Last night, we passed another horrific milestone in Iraq: 4,000 U.S. men and women killed nearly five years to the day the war began. As Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) points out in this guest blog, the fiscal year 2009 federal budget George W. Bush is proposing includes billions of dollars to keep up the war, […]
Sick in America? You’re on Your Own
Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), knows what ails the nation’s sick health care system. The AFL-CIO Executive Council member says Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s health proposals don’t even come close to a cure. In this crosspost from Huffington Post, DeMoro dissects McCain’s health care […]
Economy Tanking? Bush Says Cut Job Funds, Worker Programs
By Mike Hall, Mar 13, 2008 The Bush-Cheney administration’s first seven budgets have left a legacy of abuse and neglect when it comes to vital working families issues, key workplace initiatives and the important programs that make up the social and economic safety net. And the final Bush-Cheney budget proposal is no different, says AFL-CIO […]
A Glimpse into War Journalism
A few days ago, I asked a journalist “how would you cover a war on the perspective of global journalism?” First, he surprised than he answered me that he is a crime reporter not a war reporter. I told him just to guess. This time he was a bit specific and answered, “it is difficult […]
More Strategies for Getting Out of Debt
Part 16 in a series of how to be successfully self-employed Here are some more strategies for getting out of debt, in addition to those introduced in Part 14, Dig Yourself Out of Debt, and Part 15, Get Rid of Credit Card Debt. Start paying cash This can be the hardest part of getting out, […]
Put Your Spending Down on Paper
Part 10 of a series in how to be successfully self-employed Are you like most people who look at their W-2’s each year at tax time and ask, “Where did all that money go?” You can probably sit down and figure out the big expenditures – the mortgage or rent payments and how much the […]
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