Citizens United, Two Years Later
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2012 State of the Union Fact Check
From ThinkProgress: Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs. The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976. Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight…
CI: The Year of the Vote
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. The Year of the Vote by Nancy A.…
Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging Health Law
From NYT: The justices agreed to hear a challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, setting the stage for a ruling in the midst of the 2012 presidential race. ThinkProgress has a nice round-up on the legal basis/constitutionality of the PPACA: [The Constitution] provides that the United States may…
Unions Unhappy with the DNC
Several unions are vowing not to take part in the democratic national convention: Casting North Carolina as an anti-union bastion with “regressive policies aimed at diluting the power of workers,” more than a dozen trade unions affiliated with the national AFL-CIO have told the Democratic National Committee that they will…