Economic divide—more than just a partisan battle
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Economic divide—more than just a partisan battle

As President Obama delivered his State of the Union speech last week, virtually all Americans (91{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222}) surveyed in the latest NBC/WSJ poll* said that creating jobs should be an absolute priority for the President and Congress to address. Indeed, just 28{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} said they are satisfied with the state of the U.S. economy today, versus 71{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} […]

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New Survey for AAF Finds Americans Prefer Shorter Unemployment Insurance Window, and Significant Support for Offsets

Offered the choice of unemployment benefits lasting six months or a little over five years, American voters opt overwhelmingly for the pre-2008 recession standard of six months.  In a second question, which is the first we’ve seen to test the choice of extending benefits as is, or offsetting them, a strong majority support offsets. Click […]

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Under a Cloud No More

So you rang in the New Year with a bottle of bubbly?  How old school!  My fellow Coloradans were lining up for “freedom day” sales of the first legal marijuana in the nation.  While it certainly was unprecedented, the normalcy seemed to be what struck the international news media as well as casual observers.  The […]

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OBAMA AND HIS HEALTH CARE PLAN AIN’T SO HIP ANYMORE

With the success of President Obama’s signature health care law hinging on the hope that young people will enroll through the federal exchange website, it should come as a dire warning to the President and Democrats running in 2014 that young Americans stand in firm opposition to the President and his health care plan. In […]

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Immigration Reform and the California Testing Ground

With the debt ceiling debate and the government shutdown that went with it, and now with the furor created by the health insurance marketplace and the number of Americans losing their existing health coverage as Obamacare ramps up, there has been very little national discourse about immigration reform in recent months.  However, all has not […]

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