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The World's Billionaires 2011 - Forbes.com
forbes.com - Browse The List Net Worth Calculated March 2011 Rank Name Net WorthAge Source Country of Citizenship1 Carlos Slim Helu & family $74 B 71 telecom Mexico 2 Bill Gates $56 B 55 Microsoft United States...
US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions: Issues
help.senate.gov - Welcome to the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) education homepage. The evolving global economy and the need for a highly skilled workforce create new...
Occupy Wall Street Offshoot, Unions Protest in Chicago
online.wsj.com - BY JACK NICAS CHICAGO—A long-planned Chicago protest against the financial community was augmented Monday evening by the local offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Thousands of protesters, ...
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nypost.com - New York political kingmaker and religious leader Floyd Flake rakes in the cash -- and leaves wreckage behind, critics say.For five years, the former congressman headed one of the largest churches ...
MCS mistakes prove costly » The Commercial Appeal
commercialappeal.com - I am one of the many Memphis City Schools teachers whose official status is "surplus teacher." Supt. Kriner Cash derisively refers to us as "lemons." For him, it may be a joke. For cash-strapped ta...
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Putting a Face on What’s at Stake in a Clash Over the Minimum Wage
nytimes.com - At its most elemental, a battle brewing in the City Council comes down to this: Do a few thousand New Yorkers like Kimberly Ortiz deserve a raise? A 27-year-old with a broad smile and v...
Michelle Rhee Speech at Kent State/Stark Prompts Faculty to Organize Counter Event
stateimpact.npr.org - Alex Wong / Getty ImagesFormer D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee speaks at a 2010 press conference. Michelle Rhee, the former D.C. public schools chief, will speak to a full house at Ken...
Despite all the advertising, the cell phone experiment is a flop
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Yesterday’s NY Times features an article about the new institute at Harvard run by Roland Fryer with Eli Broad’s money, which is going to evaluate the results of Fryer’s large scale experiments to ...
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Conservatives Trying to Sabotage the 99 Percent Movement, and More
truthout.org - In today's On the News segment: Conservatives trying to sabotage the 99 percent movement, household incomes in US have fallen more in the two years after the Bush recession was supposedly over, pla...
The Milquetoast Radicals
nytimes.com - The U.S. economy is probably going to stink for a few more years. It is beset by short-term problems (low consumer demand, uncertain housing prices, too much debt) and long-term problems (wage stag...
VIDEO: Corporate Media Shows Its Disdain for The 99 Percent Movement
thinkprogress.org - The 99 Percent Movement’s protests in Manhattan have entered their third week. As the movement continues to build momentum, sympathetic coverage has begun to come in from journalists, politicians, ...
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California Bans Openly Carrying Handguns
baycitizen.org - Courtesy Richmond Confidential Hours after Gov. Jerry Brown announced he had signed a bill to prohibit Californians from openly carrying unloaded handguns, law enforcement officials and Bay Area ac...
Occupy Wall St. Richest One Percent Answer Back
abcnews.go.com - In the 5th week of the Occupy Wall St. movement, with protests now having spread now to 150 U.S. cities and even to Europe, the apparent objects of that protest—the richest 1 percent—are starting t...
The Occupy movement comes to Oakland
sfgate.com - Ben Margot / AP Protesters participate in an Occupy Oakland rally Monday. (10-10) 18:05 PDT OAKLAND -- Hundreds of protesters poured into Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza this evening, joining a multi-c...
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Thousands converge on mortgage bankers at #occupychicago. Tribune has something in its eye. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Thousands march to the meeting of mortgage bankers at @occupychicagoThe great leader of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis.This blogger sitting down on Monroe at the Modern Wing of the Art In...
Princess Sydney Morris Calls Mall Cops On A True American
southbronxschool.com - Hey teachers of Los Angeles, here is more truth to how Educators4Excellence works. Behind ever wingnut there is their wingnut babe. Juan Peron had Evita, Hitler had Eva Braun, Mussolini had Clara...
Back Home, and Homeless - NYTimes.com
atwar.blogs.nytimes.com - Courtesy of Matt FarwellThe author on deployment in Afghanistan.Mid-June, 2011: I find myself alone in a dark wooded park tucked between million-dollar houses south of Stanford University, looking ...
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Median U.S. Incomes Shrank Further After Recession
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new rese...
Newspaper CEO resigns with $37 million payout
tucsonsentinel.com - Posted Oct 6, 2011, 4:49 pm Dylan Smith TucsonSentinel.comThe head of the parent company of the Arizona Republic, the shuttered Tucson Citizen - and part owner of the Arizona Daily Star operation -...
Occupy Wall Streets Misconconceptions According to Obama's Job Czar
my.firedoglake.com - (Photo: World Resources Institute on flickr) In a Sixty Minutes interview on Sunday (available here) Obama’s chosen go to guy on job creation, General Electric’s chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immel...
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Agent Provocateur Confesses that he Infiltrated October2011 with Intention of Disrupting Die-In
october2011.org - The American Spectator admits to being involved in the precipitation of violence at the Air and Space Museum as a means of discrediting the Occupy Movement.It has been openly reporting about its "p...
Occupy Wall Street explained in a NY minute on Bill Maher's "Real Time" - THE DAILY RIFF
thedailyriff.com - "I have no trouble understanding what they are complaining about . . . "-Alan Grayson While watching HBO's Bill Maher's "Real Time" on Sunday night, I mentioned to husbandthat the show didn't have ...
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Thousands converge on mortgage bankers at #occupychicago. Tribune has something in its eye. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Thousands march to the meeting of mortgage bankers at @occupychicagoThe great leader of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis.This blogger sitting down on Monroe at the Modern Wing of the Art In...
Sites and Sounds from #OccupyChicago
schooltechconnect.com - It's about policy, politics, and practice in education. I want to spark more engagement, dig deeper, and energize more teachers about the political context of our work and the transformative power ...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Thousands converge on mortgage bankers at #occupychicago. Tribune has something in its eye. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Thousands converge on mortgage bankers at #occupychicago. Tribune has something in ...
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Senators Consider Codifying Race to the Top in ESEA - Politics K-12
blogs.edweek.org - The Race may be on for a while longer.Race to the Top, the competitive grant program first created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, would become an authorized part of the Elementar...