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History is Calling You to Stand Up for Our Economy
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Wall Street Deficit Hawks Have No Shame

Dean Baker, Truthout: "Almost 25 million people are unemployed or underemployed right now. This was a completely preventable disaster. This is worth repeating a few hundred billion times so that even the geniuses in Washington can understand it."

http://www.truthout.org/wall-street-deficit-hawks-have-no-shame58504



Black Jobless Rate Nearly Double US Average

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released employment data for March. Many analysts agree that the numbers show the first substantial gain for payrolls since December 2007. Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent. According to Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, 'The US economy has "turned the corner," but it will still take up to five years to regain all the jobs lost since the economic collapse.'"

http://www.truthout.org/african-american-unemployment-rate-nearly-double-national-average58512

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Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook the Books?

By Mike Whitney

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of a cover up by the nations largest banks that have been engaged in potentially-criminal accounting activities to conceal the amount of debt on their balance sheets.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25203.htm



The Age Of Ignorance And The Federal Reserve

The Great Con Job - There Is No Money!

Video and Transcript

In America today we are getting closer to fully exposing the greatest con and cover-up in this history, it involves our banks, the federal reserve, our congress, and, of course, you and me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25199.htm



Looting Main Street

How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities.

By Matt Taibbi

If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25201.htm



33 states out of money to fund jobless benefits

With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/08/news/economy/state_funds_jobless_benefits/


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The Welfare State Is Through
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