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Government Fails To Tackle Unemployment, As Sequestration Looms

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Bonnie Kavoussi - Feb. 01 (News Report) - The January jobs numbers released earlier on Friday show that while the private sector added 166,000 jobs, the government shed 9,000 positions in January. Those job losses have ripple effects throughout the economy, economist Dean Baker explained. "If th

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'Survival of the wrongest'

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - Jan. 02 - In late 2011, in a nearly 6,000-word article in The New York Times Magazine, health writer Tara Parker-Pope laid out the scientific evidence that maintaining weight loss is a nearly impossible task—something that, in the words of one obesity scientist she quotes, only “rare individuals” can accomplish. Parker-Pope cites a number of studies that reveal the various...

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Support US jobs? Then support electric cars, says governor.

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Dec. 03 (Special Report) - Electric cars meant thousands of new jobs in Michigan, says the former governor of that state. While many have criticized alternative energy grants, Jennifer Granhom says they are essential if the US doesn't want to lose advanced manufacturing jobs 'forever.' ...

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Mitt Romney Campaign Muddles Response To Lilly Ledbetter Act Question Again

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Thursday morning brought additional confusion over what Mitt Romney would have done had the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act come to his desk while he was president. The Republican nominee has deftly avoided answering that specific question, ch

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Matt Taibbi Slams Mitt Romney

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bonnie Kavoussi - Sep. 19 (News Analysis) - Matt Taibbi says that Mitt Romney's recently leaked remarks about low-income Americans were "insane." "I think he really genuinely believes that the only reason that his particular message isn't resonating is that people want something for free and he's not offering it to them,"

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Former President's Grandson Arranged Romney Video Release

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ap - Sep. 19 - WASHINGTON -- Midway through a routine Internet search, James Carter IV stumbled upon a video that just didn't seem right. The grandson of former President...

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Jobs Crisis Panel Discusses Opportunities In Competitive Global Economy

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:23:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Sep. 05 - CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A group of business and political leaders discussing America's jobs crisis agreed on Wednesday that while Washington might be paralyzed until after the November elections, solutions can start now. The goal of the panel was to change th

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Pakistan: Controversial Detention of 11-year-old Accused of Blasphemy

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Qurratulain Zaman - Aug. 25 (Opinion) - An 11-year old Christian girl, Rimsha Masih is accused of blasphemy and has been remanded for 14 days to a juvenile prison in the twin city of the Pakistan capital, Rawalpindi.

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Government Employment Sag Laying Waste To Recovery

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bonnie Kavoussi - Aug. 03 (News Report) - The government probably could get us out of this mess. One striking piece of data in the jobs numbers out Friday was just how much of a drag the public sector is on the lame economic recovery. While the private sector added 172,000 jobs in July; federal,

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Unprecedented Greenland Ice Melt Stuns NASA Scientists

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Joanna Zelman - Jul. 24 (News Report) - Unprecedented melting of Greenland's ice sheet this month has stunned NASA scientists and has highlighted broader concerns that the region is losing a remarkable amount...

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HuffPo science editor asks readers: Is climate science true?

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:56:00 -0700

Grist - Apr. 11 - Hey, Huffington Post: I’m not one to tell you how to do your business — your budget for the time it takes me to write this sentence is bigger than Grist’s budget for the year, so you must be doing something right — but maybe it would be a good idea to hi

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'White Hispanic' In Crosshairs As Conservative Commentators Challenge Media's Description Of George Zimmerman

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Mar. 29 (Editorial) - George Zimmerman George Zimmerman , the self-appointed neighborhood watchman who shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin last month in Florida is of mixed ethnic background. He's been described as a "white Hispanic" by news outlets including The Ne

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Rick Santorum-Linked Hospital Chain Saw Suicide Attempts, Abuse, And Parents' Rights Left At The Door

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Cherkis - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - From 2007 through the first half of 2011, Santorum served on the board of directors of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), one of the country's largest hospital chains. According to the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, as of Feb. 28, 2011, UHS owned 25 acute care hospitals and 206 behavioral health centers located in 37 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many of those facilities include or are classified as residential treatment centers (RTCs) -- secure facilities charged with the difficult task of treating children with severe mental-health or behavioral issues, many of whom are living very much on the margins of society.

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Sheriff Accused Of Trying To Deport Campaign Worker, Steps Down From Romney Campaign

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Elise Foley - Feb. 19 (News Report) - Republican Congressional candidate Paul Babeu, currently serving as a sheriff in Arizona, stepped down on Saturday from his position as the co-chair for the Mitt...

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David Axelrod Downplays Bad Jobs News, Says Austan Goolsbee To Play Big Reelection Role

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Lost in this week's announcement that Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, would be leaving the White House in time of the beginning of the next school year was a telling footnote. While Goolsbee is returning to his teaching post at the University of Chicago, he will continue to advise Obama and, more significantly, will play a role in his reelection campaign.

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Why our writers are on strike against the Huffington Post

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Bill Lasarow - Mar. 05 (Opinion) - With the $315m AOL deal, the veil hiding labour exploitation is torn away. The author of Third World America must know better For the better part of the last year, Visual Art Source reposted a number of the articles that we publish in our monthly digest, ArtScene , as well as in our Visual Art Source weekly newsletter and on our website to a nationally branded website owned and operated by the author of a book published last year entitled Third World America: How our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream . That author is Arianna Huffington, the website in question being the Huffington Post. After reflecting on and discussing with our writers and editors the array of professional and ethical issues implied by that affiliation, we have made the decision to suspend any further contributions of our writers' work. Accordingly, we published a strike notice . Two central concerns have troubled us from the start: is exposure to Huffington Post's extensive ...

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Democratic Strategy In Wisconsin: Kill The Bill, Recall Republicans

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Amanda Terkel, Huffington Post - Feb. 20 - MADISON, WIS. -- Final passage of Gov. Scott Walker's (R-Wis.) controversial proposal to strip away collective bargaining rights from public employees is currently stalled, thanks...

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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Feb. 13 (Opinion) - Although The Huffington Post does not pay those who volunteer to write blogs for it, this content represents only a small share of its traffic. And, to put it bluntly, many of those blog posts aren't worth very much.

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Arianna Huffington: When HuffPost Met AOL: 'A Merger of Visions'

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Feb. 07 (News Report) - When Kenny Lerer and I co-founded The Huffington Post in May 2005, we had high hopes. But even we would have been hard put to predict that less than six years later we would be able to announce a deal that now makes it possible for us to execute our vision at light speed. AOL is an online pioneer that engenders great trust among its 250 million global users. HuffPost is on the cutting edge of creating news that is social and brings with it a distinctive voice and a highly engaged audience. In this case, 1 + 1 = 11. Far from changing our editorial approach, our culture, or our mission, this moment will be, for HuffPost, like stepping off a fast-moving train and onto a supersonic jet. We're still traveling toward the same destination, with the same people at the wheel, and with the same goals, but we're now going to get there much, much faster.

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Yielding To Wall Street, Credit Raters 'Drink The Kool-Aid'

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 22 (Special Report) - In the lead up to the financial meltdown, Wall Street firms routinely exerted influence on the nation's largest credit rating companies-- which judge the quality and safety of bonds--and the companies often surrendered to the pressure, according to the results of a Senate investigation.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Dylan Ratigan - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn't have

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Embrace What You Have In Common With Rick Warren

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Lee Stranahan - Dec. 18 (Opinion) - Apparently, Barack Obama meant what he said about our politics being too small for our problems. With job layoffs and new miserable financial statistics being announced every day, how else can we explain the press and some Republicans being endlessly fascinated with the non-connection between between Obama and Blagojevich? How else does one explain the thrashing about of some progressives over the idea of Pastor Rick Warren saying a few minutes of prayer at Obama's inauguration? The answer is simple; we currently practice a mighty small politics in the United States.

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Brian Ross: Channel This Election Fervor Into Helping the Country

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Brian Ross - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - When the dust settles Tuesday, the lunatic fringe on both sides of the aisle will crawl back into their burrows, and the rest of us will be left to repair the damage done by the Bush Administration.

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Louise McCready: Alexandra Guarnaschelli Talks About Dorito and Heirloom Tomato Sandwiches and the Power of the Pocketbook

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - "If you want a Dorito, great. But, if you want an heirloom tomato, you should be able to have that too. If you want a Dorito and heirloom tomato sandwich, you should be able to have that. I think I consider that, as a chef, as a right as basic as health care and I guess that's what I'm going to work for, finding a way to contribute to, not just buying from, local farmers."

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