Big Sky 2012 Battleground State

National Politics

Missoula Sitting around the campfire at the fishing camp with friends from Missoula and Helena last night, it didn’t take long for steak, chicken, roasted corn, baked potatoes, Fat Tire, and Jameson’s to turn to talk of the coming election and Montana’s role as a battleground state. There was no happiness with yet more Obama …

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End Invisible Unemployment Now

Financial Justice

New Orleans  More than 14 million statistically unemployed adding up to a jobless rate of 9.2% cannot really be invisible, can they?  How could they be invisible especially when the real numbers of unemployed who are now “discouraged” job seekers, workers in the informal economy, and “portfolio” workers balancing a list of tasks while trying …

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