Morning Links
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In his speech on the jobs crisis last week, President Obama called the mass unemployment caused by the Great Recession “a continuing human tragedy.” Today’s front page of The New York Times reports on a Times/CBS News poll of unemployed Americans in a story headlined “Poll Reveals Depth and Trauma of Joblessness in U.S.”
A major new Work Trends Survey by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers finds declining job satisfaction and severe loss of confidence in the economy (pdf) among workers in the last decade.
Seth Michaels at AFL-CIO NOW BLOG provides all the links needed to tune-in to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s live online conversation and jobs crisis Q&A at 4pm EST today.
After giving the heads of some of the biggest U.S. banks a talking to designed to press them to help spur recovery through more lending, President Obama today plans to bring the entire Senate Democratic caucus to the White House to address the need for health care reform.
If you’re not quite sure whether you ever want to see the words “Joe Lieberman” again, check out this continuously-updating Lieberman Google search page.
Will Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) ever get a vote on his drug importation amendment?
John Walker at Firedoglake looks at the drug importation issue and what he calls the “Double-Double-Cross”.
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) thinks it may be high time to scrap the whole 60-vote thing in the Senate and put an end to the filibuster, noting with some irony that his last attempt to do so, in 1995, was co-sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Tags: filibuster, health care reform, unemployed
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