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latimes.com - 1/26/2009
The union way up - Los Angeles Times
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At the center of this virtuous circle were unions. In 1955, more than a third of working Americans belonged to one. Unions gave them the bargaining leverage they needed to get the paychecks that kept the economy going. So many Americans were unionized that wage agreements spilled over to ...
latimes.com - 1/22/2009
Sarah Palin may be shopping a book - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Barnett declined to comment. But a variety of published sources, including the Hollywood Reporter, said that Barnett... was on board in helping to sell a Palin book. Presumably, the book would tell her side of the 2008 presidential election, when the ... (more) Sarah Palin may be shopping a book - Los Angeles Times

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latimes.com - 1/23/2009
Infrastructure: It's Job 1 to Americans - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — I'm a pollster and political consultant associated with Republican causes: the Contract with America, the "death tax"... and, of course, ending wasteful Washington spending. So why am I behind the new stimulus legislation -- the biggest spending bill ... (more) Infrastructure: It's Job 1 to Americans - Los Angeles Times

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latimes.com - 1/20/2009
Obama's link to America: his BlackBerry - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — 'Let the man have his BlackBerry." I said that to a meeting of senior transition staffers in... Washington last week. I've been working with Barack Obama since before the election, and I know that without his virtual connection to old friends and trusted ... (more) Obama's link to America: his BlackBerry - Los Angeles Times

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LiberalOasis : The Blog:  Progressive Breakfast: Who Won In November?

DownWithTyranny!:  Republican Assaults On Working Families Turned Back In The House & Senate

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Progressive Breakfast: Who Won In November?
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... Robert Reich makes the case for EFCA in the LA Times: "Although America and its economy need unions, it's become nearly impossible for employees to form one. The Hart poll I cited tells us that 57 million workers would want to be in a union if they could have one. But those who try to form a union, according to researchers at MIT, have only about a 1 in 5 chance of successfully doing so." ...

Republican Assaults On Working Families Turned Back In The House & Senate
DownWithTyranny! — ... of the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act-- something the Republicans in the House, Senate and White House have been able to bottle up for years-- I want to recommend a not unrelated OpEd in Monday's L.A. Times by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. In answering the question about why the current recession is smelling more and more like a depression, he points to a time before many of us were born when "good pay meant more purchases, and more purchases meant more jobs... a virtuous circle," at the center of which was the American labor movement: unions. ...

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