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UCubed: A New Union for the Unemployed

March 5, 2010 Madonna Gauding Congress, Employment, Obama, Politics 2 comments

I’m really hoping this catches on because it provides local support and empowerment for the unemployed while simultaneously strengthening their political voice on the

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U.S. Congress: Where lawmakers meet to “tweet”

March 2, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Politics, Technology 2 comments

According to The Hill, The Republican Study Committee (RSC) declared Monday [March 1, 2010] a “Twitter Day,” encouraging its members to tweet about their “commitment,”

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To TP or not to TP…that is the question

February 27, 2010 Carisa Henze Congress, Health care 2 comments

The path to enacting significant legislative measures in the Congress has become a war of words.  Let’s be honest, the American people are at

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What Republicans & Democrats can agree upon

February 26, 2010 Arthur Lieber Congress, Obama, Politics 2 comments

The current lack of bi-partisan cooperation in part reflects a polarity of ideas, but also a distressing amount of “boys and girls behaving badly.”

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Putting the Toyota recall in context

February 23, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Consumer issues, Transportation 4 comments

Toyota is recalling millions of cars–justifiably–but can we take a minute to look at some context, here? The Los Angeles Times reports that sudden

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