Liberal ‘dark money’ group rails against ‘dark money’
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The nonprofit organization, called American Family Voices, is backed by retail lobby, unions, among others. Continue Reading
‘Think tank’ butchers pension reform facts
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Not everything the Manhattan Institute publishes is false, or even misleading. But it’s hard to trust their analysis of the other 48 states when they got so many things so provably wrong in their analysis of pension reform in New Jersey and New Mexico. Continue Reading
Right-to-work laws hurt all workers and the economy
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The Rio Grande Foundation can try to cobble together all the complex statistical formulae in the world, but the reality is their vision of a workforce with no rights and no power almost always leads to lower wages and higher unemployment. Continue Reading
Super PAC, union aid Sen. Smith’s challenger
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The American Federation of Teachers and Progressive Kick, a federal Super PAC based in California, are trying to help Larry P. Martinez unseat N.M. Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith in next week’s Democratic primary. Continue Reading
For immigrant groups and Occupy movement, issues converge
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If anything captured the essence of the 2012 May Day celebrations, it was the convergence of issues popularized by Occupy Wall Street-influenced movements with demands for justice long pushed by immigrant community organizations. Continue Reading