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Entries by Robert Kuttner from 09/2011

Black and Bleak

| Posted 09.04.2011 | Business
Read More: Obama Jobs Speech, Obama Administration, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Labor Day, Black Unemployment, Business News

What a terrible irony this Labor Day that under America's first African-American president, black unemployment has risen to its highest level since the early Reagan years, and decades of black progress on homeownership have been wiped out.

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Future Imperfect

| Posted 09.11.2011 | Politics
Read More: Elections 2012, Obama Jobs Speech, Congress, Economics, US Economy, Politics News

Suppose President Obama's jobs speech marks a turning point. He gets energized by being a little more partisan. He finds that putting Republicans on the defensive is good politics. His poll numbers improve. He wins some of his proposed jobs bill, and fights hard for the rest of it.

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Muddled Class Warfare

| Posted 09.18.2011 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Warren Buffett, American Jobs Act, Medicare, Class Warfare, Barack Obama, Buffett Rule, Politics News

Deficit reduction as a cure for a prolonged jobs recession not only mixes the message, it does nothing to put unemployed people back to work and it deprives government of the resources it needs to help the needy and get the economy back on track.

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Can Europe Be Spared Cascading Collapse?

| Posted 09.25.2011 | World
Read More: Greece Debt, European Debt Crisis, European Union, Eurozone, Greek Debt Crisis, World News

When a house is on fire and threatens the whole neighborhood, it's not smart to dither about whether there was adequate fire-prevention while the place burns down. You put the fire out. And right now Greece is on fire.

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