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Bailout Money Fighting the Employee Free Choice Act?

By | 01.29.09 | 11:31 am

The $700 billion bank bailout was supposed to stabilize banks and get them lending again. However, some of the recipients seem more interested in rallying big business against the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for workers to unionize.

Sam Stein reports in The Huffington More…

Obama Outlines Energy Agenda

By | 01.26.09 | 11:01 am

Before signing new executive orders on his green agenda this morning, President Obama laid out three priorities in the areas of energy independence, fuel efficiency and emissions.

“This moment of peril must be turned into one of progress,” he pledged. Noting today’s announcements of huge job cuts at Caterpillar, More…