Obama calls for extending middle-class tax cuts WMUR.com ...Obama called on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 per year...
It's a repeat: Romney tops Obama in June by $35 million Politico ...In an email to supporters, the Obama campaign announces raising $71 million in June — trailing Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee for the second consecutive month, this time by $35 million...
Major Rent Strike Against Millionaire Slumlord Catches Fire in Brooklyn Alternet ...As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have more opportunity than ever to prey on the most vulnerable of tenants...
Indentured Students Rise As Loans Corrode College Ticket Bloomberg ...As college costs have soared faster than the rate of inflation over the past four decades -- reaching $60,000 a year at the most expensive private schools -- Republicans and Democrats alike postponed a reckoning. They encouraged borrowing and ignored surging tuition, leaving loans to balloon to the size of mortgages, shocking even the system’s own architects...
Scott Walker Stacks Ethics Commission With ‘Fiercely Conservative’ Members Picked By A Corporate Lobbyist ThinkProgress ...Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, an ally of Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), is currently facing ethics charges due to allegations that he placed a fellow justice in a chokehold during an argument. Walker, however, now appears to have adopted a selection process for new members of this commission that will ensure Prosser will receive favorable treatment in the future...
Teamsters Call For Independent Board Leadership At Republic Airways IBT ...The current structure, with its close-knit board and conflicted lead director, makes investors vulnerable to the whims of a domineering chairman/CEO with no clear vision for the airline...
Teamsters Strike at Sorrento in South Buffalo WGRZ.com ...Members of the Local 264, International Brotherhood of Teamsters say they agreed to strike because of "Sorrento Cheese's unilateral imposition, effective 7/2/12 of inferior terms for health care coverage..."
