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How Does Unemployment Work?
February 10th, 2010 | 3 Comments »How Does Unemployment Work?
These days plenty of people are dealing with unemployment. To wrap our heads around the concept of unemployment we need to define the word itself.
People think the word “unemployment” simply means being out of work. This is not totally true, at least not as far as the government is concerned.
Unemployment applies to people who are currently out of work but are looking for work and having trouble finding it. Usually unemployment is a direct result of being fired or laid off. People who simply have no job and weren’t laid off or fired are…
Wal-Mart for President
January 21st, 2010 | No Comments »Supreme Court Ends Limits on Corporate Campaign Contributions
A strongly divided Supreme Court voted today to end Federal limits on campaign spending by big corporations. The Court voted 5-4 in favor of ending limits placed on campaign contributions by both big business and worker unions.
Sure, I know the Supreme Court is tilted to the right, but I never thought I’d see a Supreme Court, any Supreme Court, make such a bold decision in opposition to their own past findings.
Remember the McCain-Feingold Law of 2003? Apparently the Supreme Court doesn’t either. That law, also known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform…