Today, many workers at the nation’s largest retail stores, including Walmart and Target, will have to go to work instead of spending the entirety of the Thanksgiving holiday with their families. Many retailers have decided that Black Friday, the biggest retail day of the year, now needs to start on Thursday , despite workers complaints
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Category: author, CNN, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Social Security, Taxes, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets | Comments Offby Roland Hwang, via NRDC’s Switchboard Lost in the current debate about “offshoring” is the remarkable story of the “onshoring” of fuel-efficiency manufacturing. Thanks in large part to stronger standards, American drivers no longer have to buy foreign if they want to trade in their gas guzzler for gas sippers
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Category: author, Climate Progress, director, Economy, Feeds, Global Warming, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, Science, Technology, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffAccording to a government report about the well-being of older Americans , today’s 65-year-olds can expect to live longer — to age 85, compared to 79 in 1980 — and healthier than previous generations. Deaths from heart disease and stroke have dropped almost 50 percent , which has helped to increase the average life expectancy for Americans. But a dozen developed nations had longer life expectancies than America’s
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Category: author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Medicare, Planned Parenthood, ThinkProgress, Tweets | Comments OffFriday Protest at Prime Minister Official Residenc… Building a Fancy Website, Minister of the Environm
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Category: Afghanistan, agriculture, al-Qaeda, Arizona, Articles, author, budget deficit, CNN, Congress, Debt Ceiling, debt limit, Deficit, Economics, Economy, Elections, Entertainment, Environment, Feeds, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Harry Reid, Headlines, Health, huffington post, Iraq, Justice, Media, Medicare, Paul Krugman, Peace, Pentagon, Politics, Science, Siemens, Social Security, Technology, Terrorism, The Nation, United Nations, Video, War, Washington, White House | Comments OffQuirky music duo 11 Acorn Lane release the single Have Some Fun and communicate their idea of what summer should be all about.
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Category: author, director, Feeds, Media, Video, War | Comments OffMacroprudential policy is meant to reduce the risks from the financial sector spilling over to the wider economy. But the debate over how to do so goes on
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Category: Afghanistan, Alternet, author, director, Economy, Environment, Feeds, Health, Justice, Media, Politics, Science, The Nation, War, Washington | Comments OffReposted from The Washington Post PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Papua New Guinea’s parliament elected Peter O’Neill as prime minister of the South Pacific island on Friday, ending a bitter, yearlong power …
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Category: agriculture, author, CNN, Economics, Feeds, Media, Video, Washington | Comments OffProtesters stage a demonstration against the arrival of the US military’s Osprey aircraft, in front of the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo in July 2012.
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Category: Alternet, author, Barack Obama, Economy, Environment, Feeds, Health, Justice, Media, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Politics, Science, War, Washington | Comments OffTom Gallagher When Hilary Clinton visited Laos last week, no one expected her to emulate West German Chancellor Willy Brandt when he fell to his knees on his 1970 visit to the Warsaw Ghetto.
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