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Impressive Job Gains Cap a Year of Steady Labor Market Improvement
Employers added 252,000 to their payrolls in December capping the
best year for employment gains since 1999.
Source: Brookings Institute
Employers added 252,000 to their payrolls in December capping the
best year for employment gains since 1999.
Source: Brookings Institute
Deficit at 6-Year Low!
WASHINGTON — The deficit for the just completed 2014 budget year was $483 billion [It was $680 billion in 2013]... It's the lowest since 2008 and, when measured against the size of the economy, is below the average deficits of the past 40 years.
Peninsula Daily News
October 16, 2014
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Founded in Chicago in 1901, Walgreen is the largest drugstore chain in the United States. It is now is on the verge of moving its corporate headquarters to Switzerland as part of a merger with Alliance Boots, the European drugstore chain. “Walgreen’s morph into a Swiss corporation will cost you and me and every other American taxpayer about $4 billion over five years, according to an analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness. The tax dodge likewise means more money for Walgreen’s investors and top executives. Which is why its large investors – including Goldman Sachs — have been pushing for it.”
Robert Reich
The Limits of Corporate Citizenship
Source: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24642-the-limits-of-corporate-citizenship
Robert Reich
The Limits of Corporate Citizenship
Source: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24642-the-limits-of-corporate-citizenship
What did the GOP do?
“...So when you hear a false equivalence that somehow, well, Congress is just broken, it’s not true. What’s broken right now is a Republican Party that repeatedly says no to proven, time-tested strategies to grow the economy, create more jobs, ensure fairness, open up opportunity to all people.” [May 22, 2014]
--President Barack Obama
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--President Barack Obama
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FACT CHECK: President Obama has used executive orders less frequently than nine of his predecessors beginning with President Eisenhower. Eisenhower issued 484 executive orders compared to Obama's 168. Republican Presidents Reagan, Nixon, Ford, G.W. Bush ALL issued more executive orders than President Obama.
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