To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, May 6, 2024

Observercast

Don’t Close Our Post Offices – Put Them To Work!

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what. Not Walmart-style jobettes, but real jobs – stable ones with good salaries and benefits, union jobs so workers have a say in what goes on, jobs that have strong protections against discrimination. A job one can make a career, do useful work in, […]

Minimum Truth: The Hollow Argument Against Higher Wages

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BY JOE CONASON In the midst of a crucial political debate that plainly favored proponents of a higher minimum wage, the Congressional Budget Office dropped a bombshell headline last week. Increasing the minimum to $10.10 an hour – as demanded by President Barack Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill – would “cost 500,000 jobs.” At […]

Mass Transit Is For The Young

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BY FROMA HARROP I frequently ride one of those cheap buses connecting my small city with a big city. At first, I expected my fellow passengers to be largely poor and old – the folks who can’t afford to drive or are unable to. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Most are able-bodied, youngish adults taking […]

I’m Not Watching The Olympics

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH This is not exactly a newsflash in my house, where, before he left for college, my son had to teach me how to turn on the TV. The thing is, I really don’t want to watch the Olympics, even though I spent many of my happier childhood hours watching figure skating on […]

Hillary Is Too Old For What?

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BY FROMA HARROP The esteemed political writer Charlie Cook recently produced a column titled “Is Hillary Clinton Too Old to Run?” Despite couching his thoughts with a mention that if Clinton were to run, she would be the same age as Ronald Reagan when he was first elected president, 69, he did venture over the […]