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Just a follow up on the recent top quality diaries by ericlewis0 and Kerry Eleveld on President Biden’s fundraising surge since the State of the Union address, and the strongly positive reception he and his policies have gotten. (Even more amazing...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 11:28 AM PST
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The Biden campaign has been making an explicit effort to troll Donald Trump into a frenzy by doing things he despises, like calling him "a loser" of the 2020 election. But in truth, nothing President Joe Biden has done to date has proven more...
by Kerry Eleveld
69 comments
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 09:27 PM PST
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I’m writing this diary as a companion piece to Aldous J. Pennyfarthing’s diary titled, “New research doesn’t support return to office mandates, and neither do workers”. Corporations are struggling with work from home issues and paying for costly office...
by Bezoo74
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 05:12 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
84 comments
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Reposted from My Substack As I have previously written, America is already in the midst of a New ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
65 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
with 188 Recommends
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Reposted from My Substack When they came into office, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all faced economic recessions. The economy was in a slump, jobs were being lost, and things were headed into a downward spiral. Clinton turned this...
by Frank Vyan Walton
200 comments
on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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While President Joe Biden's handling of the economy proved to be a stubborn point of tension with consumers in 2023, year's end brought reason for optimism moving forward. Ideally, voters would ...
by Kerry Eleveld
105 comments
on Mon Dec 25, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
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Libbi Urban’s co-workers broke into applause at the union hall last year when they learned that their new contract with Cleveland-Cliffs not only increased wages by a whopping 20 percent but provided greater work-life balance and even enabled them to...
by David McCall
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 07:39 AM PST
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The House Committee on Education and the Workforce convened Wednesday to discuss the Biden administration’s proposed labor rule, which would reportedly make 3.6 million more Americans eligible for overtime pay and protections. The Republican-controlled...
by Walter Einenkel
128 comments
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM PST
with 195 Recommends
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A commentator on MSNBC the other day said something that I have never thought about before and it resonated with me. His paraphrased theory is that people don’t really make a call about the economy until after Thanksgiving. They hear the news talking...
by NotSoNew
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 02:05 PM PST
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The American political system has been taken over by major corporations. Many political scientists already do not consider the U.S. a full-blown democracy, rather they view it as an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a country ruled by the few, in America,...
by frankfaiola
45 comments
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
with 139 Recommends
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I have attempted to engage in direct honest fact-based debate with MAGAs for years now and I have to admit that it's been - with a couple of exceptions - largely a failure. They don't trust mainstream media because they believe *everything* they have...
by Frank Vyan Walton
192 comments
on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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The war on workers continues.
The battle over AI and the writer’s guild continues. Here’s the problem: The writer’s are striking for decent wages for their creativity. The rich that they work ...
by RRG3DAV
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 12:25 PM PDT
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The nation's employers added 187,000 jobs in August, evidence of a slowing but still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed. Last month's job growth marked an increase from July's revised gain of 157,000...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 07:42 AM PDT
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We are once again in the midst of a campaign about the railways. Privatisation of train lines has not meant that there has been massive investment on trains, it has not meant that train services run efficiently and reliably on schedule, and it has not...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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John Russell, a reporter from More Perfect Union, went to a Trump rally in Erie, PA last month and actually asked questions that they answered honestly, and their answers were almost exactly what a ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
36 comments
on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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A bit dramatic of a title, but bear with me. My second diary, because I have a lot of thoughts and opinions. It starts with a story, and I forewarn will be a bit of a rant at times. In my thirties and painfully underemployed (There’s a good record for...
by Angry Pidgeon
17 comments
on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:43 AM PDT
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A new study shows how the kinds of jobs held by undocumented women, as well as the states in which they live, drive pay disparities. By Jack Ross , for Capital & Main ,
by Capital and Main
6 comments
on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Buffett and Munger lash out at "stupid" U.S.-China tensions
Javier E. David
Investing legends Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on Saturday urged the U.S. and China to settle their ...
by Joseph2482
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on Sun May 07, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Jon Stewart has been on a roll of late, taking on gun fetishists and modern capitalist apologists like Larry Summers alike. He has deftly dissected their canned answers and exposed the morally barren philosophies they believe support untenable...
by Walter Einenkel
42 comments
on Tue Apr 11, 2023 at 02:35 PM PDT
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