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January 14, 2010 - By Bill Quigley 1. Allow all Haitians in the U.S. to work. The number one source of money for poor people in Haiti is the money sent from family and workers in the U.S. back home. Haitians will continue to help themselves if given a chance. Haitians in the U.S. will continue to help when the world community moves on to other problems.

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,

December 16, 2009 - By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest A widely circulated rumor that Goldman Sachs executives were loading

December 12, 2009 - By Bill Quigley, Center for Constitutional Rights

December 9, 2009 - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media The bad news is that the more than one out of three young blacks out ofwork matches the figure for joblessness at the peak of the 1930s GreatDepression. The worse news is that the jobless figure for young blacks,especially young black males, is not much different from what it waseven before the economic meltdown. During the Clinton era economicboom, the unemployment rate for young black males was double -- and in

November 30, 2009 - By Earl O

November 24, 2009 - Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest In late October the company, A-Power Energy Generation Systems, announcedthat it had been chosen to supply some 240 turbines for a large windfarm planned for Texas. That would have been just another in a longseries of manufacturing-goes-to-China stories, but for reportsthat the group launching the $1.5 billion project--a joint venture of