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Brooke Jarvis, Op-Ed: "Even the most sophisticated job impact analyses have only limited predictive power in our complex and dynamic economy," the authors note—and sophistication isn't a notable feature of recent job analyses generated to make political points. They conclude that too many of our analyses of whether better regulations will cost jobs are too narrow or too short-term. "If analysts and advocates cannot reverse course, then the use of job impact analyses will remain a misleading distraction—nothing more than a red herring." 
Pat Garofalo, News Report: "While it is natural to assume that most unemployed workers are eligible for UI benefits, at most, only two‐thirds of all unemployed workers received state or federal UI benefits at any time during the economic downturn. Approximately 3.2 million collect state UI benefits, covering the first 26 weeks of unemployment, while an additional 2.3 million job seekers receive federal UI under the EUC08 program." 
Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Op-Ed: The neoliberal model for school reform is not, in principle, different from other neoliberal reforms: Big capital must open new markets, and the easiest markets to break into are ones that previously did not exist — that is, spaces previously considered public. In Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1980s, for instance, and now more recently in Louisiana, public education has been replaced with a system of vouchers and for-profit charter schools, where big business and corruption reigns. 
Justin Elliott, News Report: "Norris did not respond to requests for comment, nor did the Mandel campaign. The documents identifying Norris as the chairman of the Fund are public because of a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring TV stations to keep detailed records about political advertisers. The files can be valuable, offering a look at exactly who is spending and how much. Until recently, the documents were only available by physically traveling to stations." 
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: "Unfortunately for the President — and the rest of us — jobs gains have averaged only 94,000 over the last three months. That's down from an average of 95,000 in the second quarter. And well below the average gain of 225,000 in the first quarter of the year And compared to last year, the trend is still in the wrong direction: a monthly average gain of 139,000 this year compared to last year's average monthly gain of 153,000." 
Michael Beckel, News Report: The Democratic Party's platform supports "campaign finance reform, by constitutional amendment if necessary," as well as legislation to "require greater disclosure of campaign spending." The Republican Party platform calls for repealing the campaign finance reform law authored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis. and opposes the DISCLOSE Act, which seeks to institute new disclosure requirements for groups that run political ads. 
Amy Goodman, Video Report: "Sandra Fluke was a student at the Georgetown University Law Center back in February, when Republicans barred her from speaking on a House panel about the Obama administration's birth control mandate. Instead, the panel featured only men. Three Democrats walked out in protest. The next day, Sandra Fluke appeared on Democracy Now!, and she later had a chance to testify before lawmakers." 
Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "The following February, the new Obama administration had to run stress tests to see whether the too-big-to-fail banks could survive a worsening downturn on their own. At the same time, it was laying out the conditions for extending further taxpayer assistance to GM. The terrifying possibility existed then that the American auto industry would collapse and the industrial Midwest with it. By August 2009, unemployment hit a peak of 10 percent. Remember all this? My stomach remembers, as do many other stomachs." 
Carey L. Biron, News Analysis: At the 19th International AIDS Conference, held in July here in Washington, the U.S. government, backed by numerous organizations, set a formal goal of an "AIDS-free generation". Yet according to this new data, such a goal will be impossible without a significantly larger focus on new and existing interventions tailored specifically for those communities experiencing this continued expansion of HIV infections. --
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