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A new report by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) shows a major increase in what they call "asset poor" household...

Regular readers and locals will remember this name: Ray Shakir. Ray, a guy who made his money in NY, (at a union job, no less) moved to NH t...

The folks at CREDO Action have formed a Super Pac, intended to: Take Down the Tea Party Ten in 2012. The Super Pac has chosen 6 (so far) o...

In July I wrote about folk stampeding for Section 8 housing vouchers in Dallas, when thousands of people showed up, some waiting all night,...

We hear a lot of talk about job creation, and bringing jobs back to America. We hear nothing about the kind of jobs we need the most: jobs t...

Food banks in Nevada are trying to reach small communities in rural areas by setting up mobile food pantries. A truck comes in, volunteers u...

The current NH House of Representatives packed so much crazy into the last year, it’s difficult to imagine that there could be more. But the...

The US Conference of Mayors is meeting in Washington, and expressing their disgust with the ongoing spending cuts that leave their cities fi...

The gas, oil, and mining industries are booming in Wyoming. A new report shows that workplace fatalities are booming, too. From the New York...

Last month the Senate used the filibuster to prevent President Obama's nomination to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A...

The Iowa caucuses are over, and the circus has come to NH. The national and international media are either here or on the way, and the who...

In 2011, NH unions and supporters ultimately defeated HB 474, the first RTW bill filed by the current NH legislature. This was a real victor...

We're all familiar with the mythos: the USA is the land of the meritocracy, not the aristocracy. The place where every boy can grow up t...

In October we told you about the governors and legislators proposing mandatory urine testing in order to qualify for food stamps or welfar...

In the December 20th edition of Clocking Out was yet another story about the nutty NH legislature. Some members of the NH House are in favo...

Cities are already suffering from budget shortfalls, decreasing tax revenues, foreclosures, and unemployment> Now they're being hit h...

The NH legislature is in the national news again. Once again, NH legislators are covering our state with glory. They aren’t content with mer...

The Obama administration has proposed some regulations to protect home care workers. From the NY Times: Labor unions and advocates for low-w...

US Census finds nearly half of US population is considered low-income or downright poor. From Huffington Post: Squeezed by rising living co...

Jim Hightower in Nation of Change: "We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insu...