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Proposed budget cuts and threats to collective bargaining are already damaging public education in Wisconsin.

Would getting rid of the federal deficit be the silver bullet for our ailing economy? Robert Pollin explains why the standard arguments against deficit spending don't tell the whole truth.

It’s not only bad politics for states to use budget crises to bust unions—it’s also bad ­economics.

The former president set in motion a sizable slice of the fantasies destroying America.

Was Obama’s appeal to US competitiveness just about beating the Chinese and Indians—or doing right by Americans?

With no tax justice coming from Washington, municipalities across the country will have to take matters into their own hands to save the jobs and social lifelines on which their communities depend.

In the media frenzy over Obama's recent tax deal, few have mentioned the host of tax extenders and sweeteners that will end up costing the country billions of dollars.

Republicans have spent their postelection victory lap fearmongering over the deficit. But now they've insisted all Bush tax cuts be extended, at great price to the national debt.

America doesn't have a drug problem. It has a poverty problem.