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Middle Class Left Behind

Submitted by Alex Carter
March 12th, 2008

Voters have specific bad actors in mind. “It’s about big business, not the little guy,” said one member of that Greenberg focus group. 40% of Americans believe big business get whatever they want in Washington; 38% believe leaders have forgotten the middle class; 35% believe America is doing nothing about problems at home. more »

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How Conservatives Are Stealing Our Future

Minneapolis bridge collapse. Photo by Poppyseed Bandits via Flickr. (cc)In Part II of her series, "Stealing the Future," guest blogger Sara Robinson examines how conservative ideology, far from promoting optimism, has actually robbed the nation — especially the middle class — of its hope for the future by diminishing government's role in preparing for the future. She calls the conservatives' 30-year "war on big government" a war on "the very heart of democracy itself" that has put our republic "in mortal danger."

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The More Americans Demand Change, The More The State Of The Union Address S

By Andrea Batista Schlesinger
January 29th, 2008

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Confessions of a Job Exporter

By Matt Lykken
January 26th, 2008

Say you owned the corner store and needed to hire one employee. more »

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