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After months of the White House telling voters "Bidenomics is working" with mixed results, the President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is pivoting to attacking Donald Trump's economic record, according to Politico. Team Biden plans to build on...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
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President Joe Biden has been having some fun with the economists whose predictions about the economy were so wrong. He jabbed back: “Experts, from the time I got elected, were insisting that a recession was just around the corner. Every month, there...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Once again, under President Joe Biden's stewardship, the U.S. economy is making a mockery of its critics. According to the latest jobs report, November brought: Another strong month of job ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 04:30 PM PST
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On Monday, Sen. Josh Hawley became the rare high-profile Republican to visit a United Auto Workers picket line. But don’t rush to give him credit for supporting workers: Hawley used the occasion ...
by Laura Clawson
133 comments
on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 08:10 AM PDT
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The growing diploma divide stands as one of the most striking developments of the past few years. As recently as when the Clintons lived in the White House, Republicans held a solid advantage among ...
by Ian Reifowitz
59 comments
on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 106 Recommends
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It would be hard to find a bigger Joe Biden fan than me. I have written numerous GNR articles about great things he has done, frequently had sections of the GNR titled something like “Biden is Great” and wrote a series of articles, before the 2020...
by GoodNewsRoundup
101 comments
on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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It hasn’t made much press, aside from a mention in Bloomberg and a handful of Twitter accounts, but what a lot of people — especially republicans — don’t know (or, don’t want to know) is, ...
by Prairiecrat
133 comments
on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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The red wave that was supposed to thunder through America was reportedly going to be driven by a shoddy economy. Inflation was at record highs and, in the telling of Republicans and much of the media, Democrats simply could not escape its gravitational...
by Kerry Eleveld
60 comments
on Tue Jan 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM PST
with 123 Recommends
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Matt Thomas was driving Interstate 75 through the Detroit area about two years ago when he caught his first glimpse of “dead” cars—the partially manufactured vehicles marooned on sprawling factory lots amid the shortage of microchips needed for the...
by Tom Conway
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on Wed Jan 11, 2023 at 08:34 AM PST
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Chris Frydenger and his co-workers at the Mueller Co. in Decatur, Ill., began ramping up production of valves, couplings and other products used in water and gas systems soon after President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...
by Tom Conway
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 07:39 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I’m anything but a mathematician. Still, the numbers should take anyone’s breath away. Last spring, South Asia experienced a...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 06:45 AM PDT
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Frontline community leaders are racking up wins against polluters in the heart of what’s known as Cancer Alley in Louisiana. Last Week, South Louisiana Methanol’s planned petrochemical facility to be built in St. James Parish was declared dead thanks...
by April Siese
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on Thu Sep 15, 2022 at 12:29 PM PDT
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A total of 21 winners will receive between $25 million and $65 million per group to "execute transformational projects and revitalize local industries," according to the White House. That includes projects aimed at fighting the climate crisis. Of the...
by April Siese
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on Fri Sep 02, 2022 at 02:28 PM PDT
with 61 Recommends
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Thanks, Joe Biden! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that U.S. companies are moving nearly 350,000 overseas jobs back to the United States this year—a new record—as companies become a wee bit more wary about chasing cheap labor overseas and look to...
by Hunter
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 10:55 AM PDT
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President Biden was derided here for his naivete in saying that he believed that he could get some bipartisan legislation passed. He has been derided here “as the weakest” president in forever, but he got some strong legislation passed with only our...
by Dem
164 comments
on Sat Aug 06, 2022 at 04:33 AM PDT
with 116 Recommends
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Heading into the midterms—and with 2024 on the horizon—one thing we're hearing from a lot of voters is "the economy was much better under Trump." This is coming not only from the hardcore�white ...
by Ian Reifowitz
118 comments
on Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 05:59 AM PDT
with 207 Recommends
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Let's just remove the fig leaves from the attempted justification for Senate Republicans voting down the Honoring our PACT Act by the former head of " Club for 'Growth' " (ironic since this is an extremely right wing group which supports Republican...
by Dem
14 comments
on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 02:20 PM PDT
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In the dark days of December 2016, I unrolled a sheet of butcher paper on the floor in front of the woodstove, borrowed my children’s washable markers and created a map. I had been listening to a friend describe her work on the ground with FEMA after...
by Rural GroundGame
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on Tue Feb 22, 2022 at 02:31 PM PST
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As protests in Canada extend into the third weekend, the situation is becoming ever more serious. Not only are the organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” targeting U.S.-Canadian border crossings and airports to maximize the level of disruption, but they’ve...
by Mark Sumner
345 comments
on Fri Feb 11, 2022 at 10:26 AM PST
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On Friday morning, President Joe Biden is heading for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for discussions on improving infrastructure and restoring American manufacturing. As if to underscore the importance of the topics, a bridge in the city collapsed just...
by Mark Sumner
111 comments
on Fri Jan 28, 2022 at 06:05 AM PST
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