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    When Blue-Collar Whites Turned Republican

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    BY FROMA HARROP Liberals strain to understand why so many blue-collar whites have made their home in the Republican Party. Yes, the GOP better connects with this group on social and lifestyle levels. Still, with working people under so much economic strain these days, it seems odd that they’d let a culture war centered on […]

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    Our Disgraceful Minimum Wage

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER In natural terms, our economy is a giant sequoia. Unfortunately, our present corporate and governmental leadership can’t seem to grasp one of the basic laws of nature: You can’t keep a mighty tree alive [much less have it thrive] by only spritzing the fine leaves at the tippy-top. The fate of the […]

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    The 47 Percent

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH If one thing should be clear by now, it is that nothing a president or presidential candidate says is private. Assume every microphone is hot, every fundraiser is public, every side comment will be reported. You would think by this time – having been burned on the height of the trees in […]

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    Buckle Up For The Robot Revolution

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    BY FROMA HARROP Robots don’t take bathroom breaks, and that’s one reason why, all else being equal, they may make better factory workers than the human version. But all else is getting less equal. New generations of super “smart” robots are doing more and more complex tasks, their needle arms going into tiny spaces the […]

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    Close The Mortgage-Deduction Loophole

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    BY FROMA HARROP Letting homeowners deduct interest paid on their mortgages from taxable income makes no sense. It encourages taking on more debt, discriminates against renters, subsidizes one kind of spending over others and favors the upper incomes. It advances the questionable public goal of making more Americans into homeowners. And it costs the Treasury […]

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