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Austerity Is Dead; Stop Pushing It, Drop the Chained CPI and Increase Social Security

The "savings" figures thrown around in Washington aren't real - but the pain these cuts will cause is very, very real.
America's Killer Jobs

Every year, thousands of American workers die on the job, and millions are injured due to lax worker safety laws and weak enforcement of those that do exist.

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Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen

Peter Dreier teaches politics and chairs the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His most recent book is The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books, 2012) Donald Cohen is the chair of In the Public Interest, a national resource center on privatization and responsible contracting. He is also the director of the Cry Wolf Project, a nonprofit research network that identifies and exposes misleading rhetoric about the economy, regulation and government.