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Greenline: The AFSCME Blog

• Calculate Your Tax Cut Online
  The Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of 2010, and while President Obama wants to extend those cuts for all but the very rich, some lawmakers want to extend them for everyone. A new Gallup poll released today shows the majority of Americans are in favor of letting the Bush tax [...]
  
  
• Labor Day: Honoring Our History, Fighting for Our Future
  On Labor Day, we celebrate the social and economic achievements of American workers. However, during years such as this one, Labor Day also marks the start of election season. You might be wondering what politics has to do with Labor Day. The answer is: EVERYTHING. These days, when the middle class is under attack and public employees are [...]
  
  
• Hey Republicans, Thanks for Throwing American Workers Under the Bus
  Just in time for Labor Day, AFSCME has released a new video reminding voters of the critical choice they face in the November elections. You see, this summer Congress handed American workers a huge victory by passing a bill to save hundreds of thousands of jobs without adding a cent to the deficit. [...]
  
  
• New Jersey’s Pension Fraud Hurts Investors, Taxpayers and Retirees
  This entry by AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Lee A. Saunders is cross-posted from Huffington Post and Firedoglake. Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did something it has never done before. It charged the state of New Jersey with fraudulently misleading investors about the health of the state’s pension plan. From 2001 to 2007, the SEC charged, [...]
  
  
• Americans Believe in Death Panels?
  USA Today reported late last week that according to three recent polls, Americans continue to have dramatic misunderstandings about the health care reform law passed earlier this year. According to the article, many Americans are unclear on what the law means for them and still believe that it will cut Medicare or ration health care, neither [...]