Filling Solis’s shoes wont be easy
As President Barack Obama’s second term begins, change is coming. Change to his cabinet, that is. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis is the latest of the administration’s leaders to announce her resignation. Obama’s cabinet was already becoming more male and pale. With Solis, the first Latina to hold .... |
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NFCC launches Spanish language financial resource
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) recently announced the expansion of MyMoneyCheckUp, the NFCC’s free innovative online financial resource tool for consumers. The tool is now available in Spanish at miayudafinanciera.org and DebtAdvice.org, bringing Spanish speaking populations .... |
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Vice President joins CHCI swearing-in ceremony
In an historic night for the Latino community, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation's premier Latino youth leadership development and educational organization, welcomed the Hispanic members of the 113th Congress at a ceremonial swearing-in recently in the East Hall at Uni.... |
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The great American hoax of 'entitlement' reform
It has become accepted economic wisdom, uttered with deadpan certainty by policy pundits and budget scolds on both sides of the aisle, that the only way to get control over America’s looming deficits is to “reform entitlements.” But the accepted wisdom is wrong.
Start with the statistics Republi.... |
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Stand up for seniors who rely on Medicare
Editor’s Note: Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement recently on Republican proposals to cut Medicare benefits for seniors:
We stand with the American people to oppose recent proposals to cut Medicare be.... |
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América’s widening inequality must be reversed
I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won’t do it again.
Don’t believe that for an instant.
It’s true their political investments didn’t exactly pay off this time around.
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The anti-thesis to segregation: Raza Studies now!
By Roberto “Dr. Cintli” Rodríguez
I will say it again: Arizona continues to be a distraction, though it is undeniable that it is indeed the epicenter of ignorance, a laboratory for hate legislation and a mecca for the private prison industry. Yet, as a distraction, it continues to permit people to ignore their own backyards.
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Baby Boomers: New era of entrepreneurs?
As the Baby Boomer generation continues to live longer and in better physical and mental health - then even they had anticipated, they are now faced with the realistic dilemma of financing their future. Prior to recent years the answer to this dilemma was simply for them to remain in the workplace.... |
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Deadline for homeowners seeking foreclosure reviews
Well over 4 million homeowners affected by the foreclosure crisis are eligible for an independent review of their cases – but only a small percentage of them have requested one through a recently available federal program, and the deadline to do so is looming. The deadline to request a review is D.... |
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Give families a sense of security
Editor’s Note: In his weekly address on December 1st, President Obama spoke about the urgent need to pass the middle class tax cuts, which will give families and businesses preparing for the holidays the certainty they need going into the New Year.
I’m here on the factory floor of a business in.... |
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Company pays nearly $40,000 in back wages
Colorado Precision Machining Inc. has paid a total of $39,082 in back wages and liquidated damages to 10 machinists, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping.... |
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Two million unemployed could lose benefits
At the end of the year, nearly 2 million unemployed workers are scheduled to lose their unemployment benefits—followed shortly thereafter by another 900,000 who will lose benefits in the first three months of 2013. If Congress does not take action to prevent this, its failure to do so will be unpr.... |
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State jobs gains on the rise in 2012
The continuing U.S. economic recovery from the Great Recession, powered first by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and then by a variety of measures taken by the Obama administration, is rapidly translating into clear jobs gains in states across our nation.
First the national pic.... |
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Government help small bussiness
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Helping make homeowners a priority
By President Barack Obama
In recent weeks, you might have noticed something. Or maybe even heard the sound of it if you live close enough. New homes are going up. In fact, construction workers are breaking ground on new homes in América at the fastest pace in more than four years.
At the same time, more homes are bein.... |
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