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The Great Recession

American Obsession With Rich Explains Bloomberg: Guardian

The Guardian | Hadley Freeman | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

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It's not that Americans are obsessed with people with money, exactly; it's that they are obsessed with how those people made that money and, more impo...

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For 37,000 New York Unemployed, Benefits Will Soon Lapse

nytimes.com | Patrick McGeehan | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

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Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have had the unfortunate distinction of collecting unemployment benefits longer than anyone in the state's history. B...

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'Great Recession' Hitting New York Hard: Report

WXXI | Karen DeWitt | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

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ALBANY, NEW YORK (WXXI) - A new report finds that while New York has been hit hard by the so-called "Great Recession," federal stimulus monies have bu...

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Health Care Reform is a National Security Issue

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics

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Michael B. Laskoff

To hear the Republican rhetoric, health care reform is not socialism: it's the first domino on the path to full-blown Marxist-Leninist hell.

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The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

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Larry Abrams

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

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