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Romney to export Illinois jobs on Election Day

September 26, 2012 Mike Davis 2012 Election, Business, Charity & Justice, Corporations, Employment, Illinois/Midwest, Politics, Republicans One comment

Mitt Romney’s campaign has come under fire for a number of gaffes recently, but one action by the company he cofounded, Bain Capital, is

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Hello, good buy: Goodbye, healthy communities

September 14, 2012 Barbara Finch Business, Cities, Corporations One comment

In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a nation of powerful warrior women.  Legend has it that these women even cut off their right breasts….the

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Hyatt hurts

September 6, 2012 Mike Davis Business, Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Corporations, Employment, Illinois/Midwest, Labor and unions Leave a comment

Earlier this year, National Catholic Reporter called Hyatt Hotels “the worst hotel employer in the industry.” Allegations about working conditions at Hyatt sound as

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Wanted: More masochists in Missouri

September 5, 2012 Barbara Finch Business, Charity & Justice, Consumer issues, Financial reform, Missouri region, Poverty, States Leave a comment

Honestly, I think you have to be a masochist to work for social justice in MIssouri. Case in point:  the recent effort to get

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Draining the Medicare pool

August 22, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Business, Health care, Politics 2 comments

Insurance is all about risk. Medicare is an insurance program, and it works because it pools together everyone in the Medicare-eligible age group—whether they’re

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DNC bails out of bailed-out Bank of America

August 15, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Campaigns, Corporations, Labor and unions, Obama, Politics One comment

The Democratic National Committee is moving its money. It’s taking its money out of the bailed-out Bank of America and putting it into union-owned

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We should do business like Norway

July 18, 2012 Bobbi Clemons Business, Corporations, Foreign Policy, International 2 comments

If you had $600 billion to invest in various businesses, how would you do it? Would you only invest in companies that provided a

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Retroactive Romney

July 17, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Campaigns, History, Humor, Ideas 2 comments

Mitt Romney may or may not be a job creator, but he [or his campaign team] sure knows how to create a hot new

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Living in poverty: Myths that need busting

June 11, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Charity & Justice, Consumer issues, Economy, Poverty 4 comments

Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor many other Republicans want to slash—or even kill–Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start, Social Security and other programs that

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Democrats are nicer than Republicans, or are they?

June 8, 2012 Arthur Lieber Business, Campaigns, Corporations, Economy, Financial reform, Government, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Conventional wisdom is that Democrats are more pleasant individuals than Republicans. In numerous ways, it’s clear and obvious that this adage is true. When

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