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Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman blasted the looming automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration as “one of the worst policy ideas in our nation’s history” in an op-ed in the New York Times. The across-the-board cuts are set to kick in on March 1 if Congress fails to act. The sequester was part of
Read moreHundreds are headed to Washington, DC, to rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, February 27. The court will hear arguments on whether to strike Section Five of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The landmark law banned racial gerrymandering and opened Southern polling places to millions of African-American voters during the Civil Rights movement. Section
Read moreIn a letter to Congress and civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced 22 days of furloughs for 700,000 of the department’s 800,000 employees if sequestration takes effect March 1st. The result would be a 20 percent pay cut through the remainder of this year for affected employees. Workers
Read moreNorth Carolina’s Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed a law this week to sharply cut benefits for jobless workers, saying the measure marked an important step toward “fixing” the state’s unemployment insurance system. The law cuts maximum weekly benefits to $350 from $535 and caps benefits at 12 to 20 weeks, depending on the unemployment rate,
Read morePlans are underway for a massive rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 27 to oppose any change to a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned racial gerrymandering and opened Southern polling places to millions of African-American voters. The Supreme Court set Feb. 27 as the
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