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• Can Unemployment Dip Back Under 10% Before Year-End?

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 692
  There is a slew of economic data hitting the tape this week.  Friday’s report from the Labor Department on Unemployment and the change in non-Farm Payrolls will dwarf all economic reports.  The consensus estimate for November is an expected repeat of 10.2% unemployment from both Bloomberg and from Dow Jones.  But ...
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• Forecast for South Carolina Economy remains gloomy

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Roughly half a million adults in South Carolina are unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking. That is nearly 1 in 4 eligible workers in the state. And the months ahead look grim to John Rainey, South Carolinas chief economic forecaster. "I dont feel hopeless, but its hard to feel hopeful," Rainey said. He ...
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• AFT, Save the Children Valentine Card Contest to Unite a Generation

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 648
        AFT and the children’s advocacy group Save the Children have partnered in a Valentine’s Day 2010 Card Contest as part of Save the Children’s campaign to end child poverty in the nation. You can help pick the winning cards. The five winning designs—one each from kindergarten through grade ...
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• David Ignatius: The jobless scary movie

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  For a political horror show, fast-forward to the summer of 2010: The unemployment rate is stubbornly high, hovering between 9.3 and 9.7 percent. Companies are wary about hiring more workers because the economy remains soft. Small businesses, which normally power a recovery, are caught in a credit squeeze. In this ...
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• Check Out UNITEHERE’s Hotel Guide Before You Travel

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 648
        If you have plans to travel this holiday season, check out the UNITEHERE! Union Hotel Guide before you book a room. The user-friendly online directory helps you identify union-staffed hotels across the country. Just plug in city and state, and the site will display a list of hotels in the area that ...
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• Supreme Court issuing fewer rulings

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  For the first time under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court failed to issue opinions before Thanksgiving in any of the cases that were argued in recent months. The court operates under no deadlines, but usually produces an opinion or two by the middle of November, especially if Chief Justice Roberts ...
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• Seattle +10: SE MN Labor Council presents "Trade Off" and a chance to talk about fair trade

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 626
  The recent murders of four union members in Colombia underscores the tensions that remain with the doctrine of free trade since the WTO protests in Seattle ten years ago; a trade agreement with the South American nation remains stalled because of human rights concerns . (In March 2008, Bluestem Prairie 1.0 noted ...
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• Charges Filed in Kenneth Gladney Beating Case

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  Two and a half months after 39-year-old Kenneth Gladney (right) was beaten in St. Louis by SEIU thugs outside Bernard Middle School, charges have finally been filed against six individuals, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The charges come 15 days after I asked the question, Why No Charges in ...
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• College Graduates Struggle To Repay Loans

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Samantha Green graduated from Indiana University in May with a $50,000 debt, a degree in journalism and a burning desire to start her career in Chicago. So far, the only job offers she has gotten are temporary or minimum-wage sales jobs. "Its just not something thats a good fit for me," says Green, who is doing odd ...
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• Hosting Terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The New Growth Industry

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Lawmakers in New York and Illinois were quick to recognize that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial offered a new opportunity to secure billions of additional taxpayer funds. Both states are reeling from the combined effect of economic slowdown and years of profligate spending on government, grown far beyond what the ...
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• CHARGES FILED: SEIU VIOLATED LAWS, CHANGED MARKED BALLOTS, THREATENED VOTERS

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 139
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• BREAKING: ACORN ENGAGED IN MASSIVE DOCUMENT DUMP IN SAN DIEGO, OCTOBER 9th

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 139
  Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit. ...ACORN’s political agenda is also exposed, with ...
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• Mahoney Selected OPEIU Secretary-Treasurer

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 648
      Mary Mahoney         The Office and Professional Employees ( OPEIU ) selected Mary Mahoney as the union’s new secretary-treasurer. Mahoney, currently an OPEIU vice president, will take office Jan. 1, 2010, and replace Nancy Wohlforth, who is retiring. Mahoney began her union career ...
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• Union Presence Noted in Photos at Highway K Rally

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  A whopping six protesters in favor of government-run health care showed up Saturday to counter anti-socialism protesters during their weekly rally at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo.Who was in the small group that was outnumbered 22 to 1 by the folks on the other side of the road?  Who was [...]
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• WSJ: Weighing Jobs and Deficit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to ...
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• Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor By Noam Chomsky and Diane Krauthamer

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Dandelion SaladWatch the interview: Industrial Worker (IWW Newspaper) interviews Noam Chomsky By Noam Chomskyand Diane KrauthamerIWW InterviewZNetNoam Chomsky’s ZSpace PageNov. 20, 2009This interview was conducted on Oct. 9, 2009, at Professor Noam Chomsky’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
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• Union thuggery: SEIU boss urges "old school ass whipping"

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  In June, an election was among home health care workers in Fresno, California so they could decide which union represent them, SEIU-UCW or the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Watch as SEIU boss Dave Regan appeals to the darkest emotions of the crowd as he implores them to "drive a stake through the ...
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• SEIU boss threatens Boy Scout volunteers

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  And the union people crawled away. Billy Joel, "Allentown," 1982. Since Barack Obamas inauguration, Service Employees International Union president has visited the White House an astounding 22 times. Stern boasts that his union spent $60 million to place Obama inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Stories like this ...
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• Video: Home Health Workers In Fresno Threatened By SEIU Thugs

  
  THE HOT JOINTS — Authority: 141
  The gangsters in the SEIU are at it again! This time in Fresno, CA where they were determined to “represent” home health workers. The workers could either willingly vote for SEIU or SEIU came out to their home and voted for them. SEIU is President Obama’s favorite union. He brags about working with these f*cking ...
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• Amy Henry—Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Reformer and forefather of much Puritan theology, Martin Luther, in his doctrine of vocation, taught that God gave each individual an occupational "calling." Mans vocation was not seen as impersonal and random, but as from a loving and personal God who bestowed each individual with natural talents and desires for a ...
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