It’s tough enough being out of work and forced to rely on none-too-generous unemployment insurance benefits, but now thanks to sequestration, long-term jobless workers are seeing a reduction in their lifeline benefits.
Talk about embarrassing. Mitt Romney in his home state of Michigan today held a rally that he must have had some high hopes for. He rented the home of the Detroit Lions, the 65,000-seat Ford Field. Quite turnout, for what surely included a bit of gold old fashioned Republican union bashing.
This is a crosspost from ThinkProgress .
Travis Waldron filed this report from a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
A member of the local Rotary Club stood yesterday to ask former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) a question weighing on the minds of millions of jobless Americans: At a time when corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash , why are the Americans who can least afford it being asked to shoulder the burden of trillions of dollars in potential budget cuts?
This is a cross-post from Think Progress . The reporter is Scott Keyes.
The defining political story three months into 2011 is the spread of anti-union legislation in the states. Now, a leading senator on the right wants to eliminate collective bargaining rights at a federal level.
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