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Does European Left "meltdown" over immigration provide a lesson for U.S. Democrats ? - Left-leaning political parties are rapidly losing ground across Europe. Working class voters have left the Labour Party and other European liberal parties over their support of open immigration policies. Many Democratic elected officials in the United States, including President Obama, think it is great politics to support amnesty for twelve millio... - 2011/12/11

Senator Bill Nelson calls for end of oil profit-gouging - The South Florida Business Journal reports: Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said Friday that oil speculators are using turmoil in Egypt and Libya as the latest excuse for “profit-gouging.” Nelson has made oil speculation a target in the past. On Friday, he sent a letter his fellow senators, asking them to join him in his latest effort: seeking to ra... - 2011/03/12

The Shaky Case for Free Trade - Ian Fletcher, an economist with the Coalition for a Prosperous America, refutes the arguments in favor of free trade: A crisis is a social problem that has started to hurt the middle class. Now that offshoring of white-collar work has started to sour people on free trade who were blasé about it as recently as the dot-com boom of a few years ago, ... - 2011/03/12

The Phony "Deficit Hawk" War Against Middle Class - Dean Baker warns of the phony "deficit hawk" war against the middle class safety net at The Guardian: The people insisting on cuts to social security and Medicare have revved themselves up and are now in high gear. They see their final victory on the horizon, with the possibility of a bipartisan deal involving substantial cuts to both programmes. ... - 2011/02/27

Joshua Holland: Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare - Joshua Holland writes at AlterNet and the United Steel Workers blog: Ayn Rand was not only a schlock novelist, she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor but the lackluster middle-classes as well. Her books provided wide-ranging ... - 2011/01/30

Borderless Economy, Jobless Prosperity - NYTimes.Com - Nancy Folbre, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, explains the jobless recovery at the New York Times blog Economix: Why has the economic recovery left workers behind? The question keeps coming up, in slightly different versions. As the headline of a recent New York Times article by Michael Powell put it, “Profits ... - 2011/01/17