G.O.P. 'Super PAC' Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama

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The Best Country for Raising Kids? Report Says It's Not the United States | Team Mom - Yahoo! Shine

The United States may be a wealthy, privileged, industrialized nation, but when it comes to being an ideal place to raise a family, it ranks well below several European countries. Take into account nonexistent parental leave policies, low preschool enrollment rates, a …

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The Enemies Within: The 20 Most Dangerous Conservatives And Their Organizations | Addicting Info

America has enemies. Not just abroad, but within our shores as well. And our domestic enemies, as it turns out, are MORE dangerous and destructive than the terrorists could ever hope to be. Because while the terrorists want to destroy us, the following people and their organizati …

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House Committees Propose Huge Cuts To Health Services, Food Assistance And Other Child Programs

Congress would permanently repeal the Social Services Block Grant under a plan passed by the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday, slashing $1.7 billion a year that goes to help fund daycare, protective services for children, special services to persons with disabilities, ad …

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New Super-PAC Threatens to Destroy Candidates Who Side With the People Over Wall Street |

Today’s system of buying legislators is effective but somewhat expensive. This system involves investing in the purchase of numerous legislators through campaign contributions and/or offers of lucrative post-government-service jobs to legislators and staffers. This system …

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Y! Big Story: Contraception controversies | - Yahoo! News TEEN PREGNANCY RATES DOWN

The image at the above link clearly shows that teen pregnancies have been on the decline in recent years.

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Facebook warns employers: don't ask for passwords - Yahoo! News

Amid an upsurge in reports that employers are increasingly asking job applicants to hand over passwords to their Facebook and other social media accounts as part of the hiring process, word comes down from Facebook: don’t do it.

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Joe Walsh Money Woes: Campaign Low On Cash As Child Support Case Continues

On Monday, Politico reported that Walsh raised only $38,300 during the first two months of 2012, which is reportedly barely enough to cover the $24,015 he owes in legal fees. Walsh's even bigger outstanding debt, however, is child support payments to his ex-wife. In 2010, …

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State-Sanctioned Rape: Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Laws in Virginia, Texas, and Iowa | RH Reality Check

This is outragious!!! Please also read the following article on what is the procedure for this probe Transvaginal ultrasound We need to have all the information to make more informed choices when choosing our governmental officals... They decide our lives.

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Low-Income Republicans Say Government Does Too Little for Poor People: Pew Survey

Low-income Republican voters say the government does too little for poor people, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Over half of Republican-leaning registered voters earning less than $30,000 a year -- 57 percent -- say the government doesn't do enough to help the  …

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US Ranks 27th in Social Justice

"USA: We're No. 1!" Oh, wait — Iceland is No. 1. But we did beat out Poland and Slovakia, right? Uh...no. But go on down the rankings and there we are! No. 27, fifth from the bottom. So our new national chant is, "USA: At Least We're Not Last!"

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Poverty in America likely to get worse, report finds

Millions of Americans will be forced into poverty in the coming years even as the US hauls itself out of the longest and deepest recession since the second world war. A study from Indiana University, released on Wednesday, says the number of Americans living below the povert …

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Census Shows 1 in 2 People Are Poor or Low-Income - ABC News

"Safety net programs such as food stamps and tax credits kept poverty from rising even higher in 2010, but for many low-income families with work-related and medical expenses, they are considered too 'rich' to qualify," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public pol …

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CBO: GOP full of it, their bill adds $25.3 billion to deficit - The Hill's On The Money

At the very end of their 369-page bill, Republicans included instructions to CBO on how to score the bill to try to make it abide by the rules. They tried to get CBO to credit flood insurance reforms with $4.9 billion in savings, but CBO refused to do so. They also tried to g …

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Viewpoints: The whole nation benefits when labor unions are thriving - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee

In 1935, FDR signed the National Labor Relations Act, which gave workers the right to join unions, and made it the policy of the United States to encourage employers to bargain with workers over wages, health care and retirement.

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CBO Oct 2011 Household Income Report - complete PDF- This IS the NEWS

Two factors accounted for the changing distribution ofmarket income.

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CHART OF THE DAY: The '47 Percent' Pay Their Fair Share

Conservatives are continuing their counter-protest against the so-called "47 percent." Specifically, that's the share of recession-era households that pay no federal income taxes.

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First look at US pay data, it's awful

Anyone who wants to understand the enduring nature of Occupy Wall Street and similar protests across the country need only look at the first official data on 2010 paychecks, which the U.S.

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FACT: Poor People Are Getting Screwed By Budget Cuts

We dodged another shut-down bullet, but only until November 18. That’s when the next temporary bill to keep the government going runs out.

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GOP Leaders Write Unprecedented Letter Urging The Federal Reserve To Keep Unemployment High

In a move without precedent in the modern era, Republican congressional leaders including House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) have penned a letter to F …

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Labor Is Property

That’s right, labor IS property.  No, no, no!  This isn’t some right-wing rant suggesting that serfdom be reintroduced (although many argue that we’re already there).  Small-“L” labor is work performed.  And labor is the property  …

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