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Sucked into the offshoring Whirlpool

By Phil Mattera
March 1, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Critics of the $787 billion Recovery Act complain it is not doingenough to revive the economy, but they rarely ask why the companiesthat are receiving stimulus contracts and grants are not hiring morepeople. Now one of those recipients is facing a growing controversyover its employment practices in a case that helps explain why jobsremain in short supply.

ARRA as a corporate rescue plan

By Phil Mattera
February 23, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest A war of words is raging over the impact of the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus program, which is now one yearold. Conservative members of Congress are mounting a relentless assaulton what they see as an abject failure, even as many of them unabashedlypromote and at least implicitly take credit for individual American

VOICES: A corporate full-body scan

By Phil Mattera
February 2, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The one redeeming feature of the abominable Supreme Court rulingon corporate electoral expenditures is the majority's retention of therules on disclaimers and disclosure. While opening the floodgates tounlimited business political spending, the Court at least recognizesthat the public has a right to know when a corporation is responsible

VOICES: Back to the barricades?

By Phil Mattera
January 12, 2010 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest The news that Byron Dorgan and Christopher Dodd will not run forreelection has Democrats fretting that they will lose their 60-votesupermajority in the Senate and will no longer be able to get anythingaccomplished. But what have we got to show, with regard to checking corporateabuses, for the past 12 months of Democratic control over thelegislative branch as well as the White House? Last year this time,