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Higher Minimum Is No Threat To Businesses, Jobs
The Hartford CourantAlthough decades of research indicate that raising the minimum wage does not adversely affect employment, this untrue claim is recycled whenever the Connecticut General Assembly considers providing working people with a small wage increase. Businesses...Tags: Politics, Connecticut General Assembly, Trinity College, Labor Legislation, Regional Authority
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Federal foreclosure settlement a disappointment
The Day, New London, Conn.After going through "19 months of hell," Christine Denoia had hoped for a large payment from a $9.3 billion federal compensation fund that penalized some of the nation's largest financial institutions for abusive tactics such as wrongful evictions....Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mortgages, Bank of America Corp., Richard Blumenthal, Economy, Business and Finance
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Life Out Here: To Ruslan with love
In the worst of times we often see the best of people. Expected heroes, such as police officers, firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses, usually do what they’re trained to do in emergency situations and do so with valor. Then there are...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports, Fox News Channel (tv network), Hurricane Sandy (2012), Heroism
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Fishermen can't fathom catch cuts
Boston HeraldLocal fishermen and elected officials are calling on the federal government for disaster assistance to ease the financial pain they anticipate will start tomorrow, when catch limits are set to be cut by as much as 78 percent. At a rally at the Boston...Tags: Politics, Seafood, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. House of Representatives, Government
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EDITORIAL: O'Malley's march to the White House
The Frederick News-Post, Md.If Gov. Martin O'Malley has been circumspect about a potential run for president, demurring over a definitive "I'm in," his recent trade visit to the Middle East showed all the hallmarks of a man prepared to make his bid. "I plan for the latter half...Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Mark R. Warner, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Regional Authority
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Tom Coburn's campaign against government waste
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is a real-life Murray Blum. Blum, played by Charles Grodin, is the president's accountant in the comedy "Dave," which I think of every time we have one of these spending dramas in Washington. In my favorite scene...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Apple iPhone, Charles Grodin, Personal Weapon Control
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Time to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
TARP, the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008, is finally over. The Treasury Department recently announced it will soon be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors....
Tags: Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Sherrod Brown, Jeb Hensarling, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Ben Affleck May Be Running For Senate
Ben Affleck appeared in Washington yesterday to meet with Hillary Clinton and John Kerry about violence in the Congo. Affleck is founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, which seeks to curb the massive number of killings in that country (5 million in 14...
Tags: Politics, Congo, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Scott P. Brown
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'Moderates' not even a moderately good solution
Arianna HuffingtonAppearing on CNN, retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman gave voice to the conventional wisdom: "In my opinion the last two years, 2011-12, have been the least productive and most partisan and uncompromising in my 24 years here." For Lieberman, like much of...Tags: Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Parties and Movements, Arianna Huffington, Democratic Party
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COLUMN: Who's on Democrats' 'short list'?
Soon after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party’s nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...Tags: Politics, Mark R. Warner, James Buchanan, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party
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Robert B. Reich: Time to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
American VoicesTARP, the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008, is finally over. The Treasury Department recently announced it will soon be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors. But...Tags: Politics, CNBC (tv network), Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Sherrod Brown
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Michelle Obama's traditional values
At the risk of inviting legions of conservatives to swoop down and tell me I'm drowning in the Obama Kool-Aid (actually, it's not just a risk; it's a guarantee), I'm just going to come out and say it: Michelle Obama was spectacular at the Democratic...
Tags: Politics, Mortgages, Mitt Romney, Michelle Obama, Customs and Tradition
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Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Jan 16, 2013
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Nov 28, 2012
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Dec 13, 2012
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Jan 15, 2013
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Sep 7, 2012
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