news.yahoo.com - 3/5/2009
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Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and seven White House cabinet members traveled to Philadelphia to kick off the inaugural gathering of President Obama's Middle Class Task Force . The task force will convene monthly in cities across the country to confront the problems faced by average ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 3/3/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC News' Karen Travers reports: Vice President Biden
kicked off the Obama Administration’s Middle Class Task Force
with a panel discussion on environmentally friendly (“green”) jobs at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia today. So what are ...
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VP Biden Kicks off Middle Class Task Force with Focus on ...
reuters.com - 3/6/2009
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reuters.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and
White House economic adviser Larry Summers will meet on
Friday with Cabinet-level members of the autos task force to discuss the restructuring of General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, the ...
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Cabinet-level meeting on U.S. autos task force set
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Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... and tickets for the Philadelphia meeting were distributed to labor and environmental groups, the task force did not accept questions from the audience. "If Biden and his team want to go into this ," said Daniel Morris, communications director of the Drum Major Institute, a think tank that analyzes middle class policy issues, "They're going to need to talk to real members of the middle class. There's no substitute for immediate intimate interaction." Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090304/us_time/085991882... How can they even start to understand the problems of the ...
Time to Empty the “Tip Jar”
Deceiver.com —
... President Obama’s “Middle Class Task Force” is missing something rather important: actual middle-class people. TIME magazine reports that every single member of the task force is in the top 5 percent of income-earners. (Next up: A Higher Education Task Force made up of middle-school dropouts.) ...
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