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• Small business - an engine for progress ???
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• Gary E. Johnson a libertarian?
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• Update on RYO stores fighting Special Interest - A letter to President Obama
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• Corporate Welfare:
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• Dr. Rachel Maddow's best seller, DRIFT
  Apr 20, 2012 08:21 AM

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• Poverty will be larger and permanent after Covid-19 is gone.
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• the farm crisis
  Nov 10, 2019 11:03 AM

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• Police and the public
  Jul 24, 2015 10:30 PM

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• It’s not centrism
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• Super-Centers Are Leaving Part-Time Workers To Fend For Themselves

  Oct 08 2014

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  Walmart, our nation's largest retailer, is cutting some 30,000 part-time employee's health care benefits, due to the rising costs for the company.
• Labor Day Milestone: Fair Labor Wasn't A Standard Until 1938

  Aug 22 2014

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  It's standard in today's American workplace to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week. But did you ever wonder where they came up with those numbers in the first place? The short answer, labor unions lobbied Congress for decades until The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
• Raise The Minimum Wage to 1968 Standards, It's Only Fair

  Apr 21 2014

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  In the last two State of the Union addresses by President Barack Obama, the raising of the minimum wage has been brought up. Obama urged the nation to vote on and be in support of proposed legislation that would raise the minimum wage from the national level that it is now at $7.25/hour to a more reasonable sum of $9.00/hr in his 2013 address, and $10.00/hour in his 2014 address.

• Why Are Police Unions Blocking Reform?Why Are Police Unions Blocking Reform?
  	Mon Sep 12, 2016 | newyorker.com On August 26th, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand for the national anthem, as a protest against police brutality. Since then,...

• Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leaveObama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave
  	Mon Sep 07, 2015 | reuters.com President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican...

• Why the New York Times’s Amazon story is so controversial, explainedWhy the New York Times’s Amazon story is so controversial, explained
  	Mon Aug 17, 2015 | vox.com On Sunday, the New York Times published a massive exposé of Amazon's "punishing" work culture. The company, the Times alleged, "is conducting a little-known experiment in...

• When Public Servants Refuse to Serve the PublicWhen Public Servants Refuse to Serve the Public
  	Sun Aug 16, 2015 | theatlantic.com Thirty-five years ago, as a reporter for The Washington Post, I spent 13 weeks following young recruits through Marine Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. That...

• In states with more guns, more police officers are killed on dutyIn states with more guns, more police officers are killed on duty
  	Sat Aug 15, 2015 | vox.com What policies can save police officers' lives? A new study suggests that limiting access to guns could help — a lot. The study, published in the American Journal of...

• U.S. job openings hit record high; small businesses upbeatU.S. job openings hit record high; small businesses upbeat
  	Tue Jun 09, 2015 | reuters.com U.S. job openings surged to a record high in April and small business confidence perked up in May, suggesting the economy was regaining speed after stumbling at the start...

• Even Small Business Owners Can Use These Tax BreaksEven Small Business Owners Can Use These Tax Breaks
  	Tue Jun 24, 2014 | forbes.com Two recent news clips caught my attention. One involved a company trying to avoid the IRS. The other involved the IRS trying to avoid trouble. Taken together, I can see how...

• CNN's Velshi Calls Out GOP Rep for Misleading Stats on Taxes and Small Bus...CNN's Velshi Calls Out GOP Rep for Misleading Stats on Taxes and Small Bus...
  	Tue Jan 01, 2013 | videocafe.crooksandliars.com I have to give CNN's Ali Velshi kudos here, because he did something we don't see often enough on our corporate media, which is to fact check someone right on the air and...

• Obama to Congress: Pass Small Business Tax BreakObama to Congress: Pass Small Business Tax Break
  	Wed May 16, 2012 President Barack is calling on Congress to help sustain the economy's "momentum" by passing legislation...