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Dean Baker:  Unemployment Rate Holds at 9.7 Percent in Spite of Snow Storms

CBPP Statement:  Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the February Employment Report

“Nearly 48 percent of adults in the Palmetto State approve of Obama’s performance as president, a Winthrop University poll found. In contrast, 39.4 percent of those surveyed approve of the job Sen. Lindsey Graham is doing, while 42.6 percent approve of Sen. Jim DeMint — one of Obama’s harshest critics.”

Read at McClatchy Newspapers

“We need to get people away from the notion that you have to have a fancy car and a huge house. Some of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years just appall me. Why do humans need huge homes? I was born poor and I didn’t know you bought clothes at anything but the Goodwill until I went to college. Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.”  -  Elinor Ostrom

Fran Korten:  Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense

Elinor Ostrom:  8 Keys to a Successful Commons

On the Commons

February 23rd, 2010 marks the 70th birthday of Woody Guthrie’s THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND .
Sing it out!

“Rank-and-file unions from various parts of the country, as well as Central Labor Councils, have been passing resolutions calling on the AFL-CIO and Change to Win to organize a massive Solidarity Day III demonstration in Washington to demand job-creation programs as well as other programs vital to working people.”

Read at Portside

Harriet Fraad:  Why Are Americans Passive as Millions Lose Their Homes, Jobs, Families and the American Dream?

Dean Baker:  Surge in Women’s Employment Brings Unemployment Rate Down to 9.7 Percent

EPI News:  Unemployment, tax cuts, and the deficit

Chad Stone:  January Employment Report

EPI News:  Policies that promote – and discourage – job creation

Bill Scher:  Like 5.7% GDP Growth? Pass A Real Jobs Bill.

CommonDreams.org:  Kucinich Plan to Create One Million Permanent Job Opportunities

“I believe that we need a society where the motive for the economic system is not corporate profit, but the motive is the welfare of people, health care, jobs, child care, and so on. But that is dominant. Where there is a greater equalization of wealth and a society which is peaceful, which devotes its resources to helping people in the country and elsewhere.”

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