Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds Alternet ... But this study suggests that there are irreconcilable gaps in income, lifetime wealth, consumption and the resulting health between the haves and have-nots in America. It also suggests progressive taxation can buffer those inequalities a bit, but not make up for the gaps...
Budget Deal Opens ‘Age of Austerity’ for Federal Agencies Bloomberg ...Lawmakers approved the so-called continuing resolution March 21 averting a government shutdown while giving a handful of agencies more flexibility to meet the mandated reductions under sequestration...
Thousands Sign Petition Opposing Potential Koch Brothers L.A. Times Bid Hollywood Weekly ..."It would be a travesty to the fourth estate if the Koch brothers are allowed to purchase one of the most respected newspapers in the country in order to peddle their discredited ideas and right-wing propaganda"...
Protect personal accounts from confiscation for bank bailouts White House Petition ...during recent events in Cyprus, the European Union sought to confiscate personal accounts, including insured accounts, for a bank bailout...
Referendum reform awaits one signature Toledo Blade ...A bill that critics contend would weaken the people’s power to use the ballot box to directly confront actions of their government is headed for Gov. John Kasich’s desk...
Scores of critics denounce emergency financial manager for Detroit Detroit Free Press ...Plans were announced to have protesters possibly line Orr's travel route to the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center his first day Monday. A rally is planned near the "Spirit of Detroit" for 11 a.m. that day, and busloads of protesters are expected to leave from Eastern Market on Monday to travel to Cleveland, where Orr's former law firm, Jones Day, has an office...
Pa. liquor bill likely to be pulled over in Senate Philadelphia Inquirer ...the Republican chairman of the Senate Law & Justice Committee, Sen. Charles McIlhinney, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Jim Ferlo, have competing proposals that would keep the state stores open and preserve thousands of union-represented jobs...
