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Weekly Audit: Why Do Deficit Hawks Hate Social Security?
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Last week, Social Security advocates learned something they had long suspected. Arguments for cutting Social Security aren’t really about economics or the...
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Weekly Diaspora: The High Cost of Cheap Labor
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger A new study about the effects of immigration on U.S. employment supports the long-standing arguments of immigration advocates: Rather than displacing...
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Weekly Diaspora: DREAM Act Could be First Step to Reform
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger After months of intense debate over the Obama administration’s efforts to revamp our immigration system, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made a...
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Weekly Audit: Can Elizabeth Warren Save the Economy?
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger President Barack Obama’s decision to appoint Elizabeth Warren to set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) couldn’t have come at a more...
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Weekly Diaspora: DREAM Act Stalls, Voting Rights Violations in Arizona
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Immigration reform activists suffered a disappointing setback this week. The Senate failed to muster enough votes to move forward with an annual...
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Weekly Pulse: Sharron Angle Mocks Insurance for Autism; The Fight to Save...
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) job doesn’t believe that autism exists. Yes, you heard right. Sharron Angle believes that the...
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Weekly Diaspora: Schools a Minefield for Undocumented Students After DREAM...
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger It’s no secret that anti-immigrant activists have a penchant for targeting youth, the most vulnerable of the undocumented set. But the Senate defeat...
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Weekly Diaspora: Will Immigration Reform Bills Bring Voters to the Polls?
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Riding the media blitz that followed the DREAM Act’s recent defeat, Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) unveiled their own...
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Weekly Audit: Will Obama Save Homeowners From Wall Street’s Latest Fraud Scheme?
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger A massive foreclosure fraud scandal is rocking the U.S. mortgage market. Wall Street banks and their lawyers are fabricating documents, forging signatures and...
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Weekly Diaspora: The Burden of Record-Breaking Deportations
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last week that it had broken its own record for deportations, affirming the Obama...
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Weekly Diaspora: Why Detention Reform is Desperately Needed
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Last October, the Obama administration’s announced their intention to reform the detention system—to improve the management, medical care and...
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Campaign Cash: Corporations Get More Power, Political Parties Get Less
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger War chests from right-wing billionaires and corporate titans are funding tremendous portions of political activity, from the so-called grassroots activism of...
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Campaign Cash: Harry Reid Under Siege by Swift Boat Billionaire Bob Perry
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Remember that horrible 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad that helped derail John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid? Well, Bob Perry, the billionaire tycoon who...
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Campaign Cash: Sen. Jim DeMint’s Making a Mint with Corporate Cash
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Corporate cash does funny things to people. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) got into office by pledging to fight “special interests,” but just a decade or so later,...
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Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Here’s the harsh truth about our immigration system: When 392,000 immigrants are detained per year and 33,000 more are detained everyday with limited...
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Campaign Cash: The Tea Party Jets to Grassroots Rallies, Wall Street-Style
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Flickr/scottjloweTwo Tea Party leaders, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, have been jet-setting all over the country ginning up support for conservative...
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Campaign Cash: Citizens United Becomes Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for...
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Flickr/Gage SkidmoreThe votes are in, and while some close races are still being tallied, there is a clear winner from the 2010 elections: Secret corporate...
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Weekly Diaspora: Immigration Reform Falls to the GOP
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The precarious fate of comprehensive immigration reform has fallen into the hands of staunch nativists. With Republicans now leading the House and a...
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Weekly Diaspora: ICE Deports Children, Disabled, and Domestic Violence Victims
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger For the past several months, the Obama administration has relentlessly professed its commitment to targeting only the most dangerous “criminal...
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Weekly Diaspora: The Final Fight for the DREAM Act
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger It’s a now-or-never moment for the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a conditional path to citizenship for certain immigrant youth. The bill’s...
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