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"And these businesses -- many of them have gone out of business. I think about half of them, of the ones have been invested in, they’ve...

As the USA Today reported , regarding Republicans accusations and conspiracies over the latest jobs report: "Bollocks,"' Wha...

The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney The Hiring Of The President History Shows Business Experience Doesn't Make A Good President...

10 Best Beer Cities In The World What to See: With a baseball team called the Brewers, is it any surprise Milwaukee is so crazy for beer? ...

The Economy Has Been Growing, Since Mid-2009 [ CBPP ]   Private Payroll Employment Has Grown For 31 Months  The Un...

Foreclosure Inventory Levels Still Declining GE's Jack Welch Knows About Cooking The Books Paul Ryan Wants U.S. To Be A Tax Shelter T...

...Republican governors hadn't slashed public employment over the past few years and Republicans in Congress didn't obstruct all the...

So...if President Obama chooses to fill the next debate with lies, will the media consider him the winner? Saying what the people wanted t...

Republicans are pointing out that unemployment was 7.8 percent when Barack Obama took office. It's now 8.1 percent. See, that proves...

Great vision and leadership were on display when Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele addressed concerns that wealthier neighborhoods'...

An Investor's Guide To Fees & Expenses CEOs & The Pay-'Em-Or-Lose-'Em Myth How Paul Ryan Would Decimate The New Deal ...

If you (Paul Ryan) are unwilling to debate your opponent (Rob Zerban), to allow your constituents (and your opponent) to question you and t...

There they go again. In their continuous effort to lie and mislead, the Republicans (on behalf of Tommy Thompson) are experiencing cogniti...

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[ source ] Recent Work On Income Disparity Some Big Corporations Don't Pay Taxes Either Truth About Taxes: Just About ...

  Misconceptions & Realities About Who Pays Taxes

Walker Administration Target Electrical Safety Codes "Mandatory requirements designed to detect fire-causing conditions, stop electri...

January 3, 2011 To Present, Employees On Non-Farm Payrolls In Wisconsin

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him,...

Moody's Downgrade Threat Is Political, Not Fiscal Save The Income Tax, Close The Loopholes Taxes, Poverty, And Political Debates The ...

State gives $5 million to BMO Harris Bradley Center for repairs. Yes, we are so broke. Unless the already well-to-do and well-connected ...

The stock market has shown steady improvement over President Obama's first term.  Republicans are supposedly worried about the econ...

General Motors had $150.28 billion in revenues in 2011. General Motors has 202,000 employees. That's $743,960 revenue per employee. As ...

Why is the economy continuing to only plod along? [But, yes, it is indeed better than it was 4 years ago.] Why is unemployment looming stu...

Glenn Beck returning to TV with Dish Network deal.

Assessing State Business Climate Indexes Demand Answers On Tax Fairness New Year Brings More Cuts In State Funding For Schools The State ...

Conservative Americans love to drone on and on about how the European welfare state is bankrupting them. As the story goes, their too-ge...

Conservatives have a talking-point about the Federal Reserve printing money. The U.S. is (supposedly) continually printing money, running up...

Government Employment Total Government Employment Since 1962

6 Big Economic Myths GOP Peddles Uncertainty Myth About Taxes How Uncertainty Didn't Kill The Economy Kill The Myth About Uncertainty...

Let's clear up some false claims (by Republicans) regarding two popular government programs - Medicare and Social Security . Accordi...

From Think Progress , "Private sector job creation under President Obama has far exceeded private sector job creation under President B...

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Buying power of minimum wage at 51 year low. Economic research supports raising the minimum wage. Minimum wage issue guide. Raising the m...

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Little difference between vouchers, Milwaukee Public School students

I recently referred to Christian Schneider ( Journal Sentinel , WPRI hack) as the Journal 's latest version of Pat McIlheran (right-wing...

"For workers in the 10th, 20th and 50th percentiles, median hourly wages haven’t grown much at all since the early 1970s. But a few e...

Bruce Murphy, in Monopoly Greed, uncovers : A new study by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) shows electric rates are now 21 perc...

The Journal Sentinel gave space to Gary Kraeger, appraiser from Wind Lake, to defend put-upon business owners from that big meanie, Barack...