- President Obama echoes Elizabeth Warren
- Age Discrimination Harder To Fight Amid Record Unemployment For Older Workers
- Economists Call For Massive Debt Relief To Jumpstart Economy
- Marty Kaplan: Occupy K Street
- Zvi Or-Bach: How to Create American Jobs
- #OccupyWallStreet Protests Spark Optimism At Progressive Political Conference
- Ben Bernanke: Congress Should Not Sharply Cut Spending In Weak Economy
- Executive Pay Spiraling Upward As Corporations Race To Pay Their Top Brass The Most
- Elizabeth Warren: 'The People On Wall Street Broke This Country'
- Joel Libava: Franchise Ownership: Should Unemployed Boomers Start Looking Into It?
- Michele Nash-Hoff: Why is There a Lack of Skilled Workers With Such High Unemployment?
- Jason Alderman: The 411 on Prepaid Cards
September 25, 2009 A solid majority of Americans favor a public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans according to a poll published yesterday by CBS and the New York Times.
More Republicans favor a public option than oppose and a very strong majority of Democrats favor the public option.
Q: Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get -- that would compete with private health insurance plans?
Total Rep Dem Ind Favor 65 47 81 61 Oppose 26 42 12 30
The poll echoes the results of earlier surveys taken by AARP and Survey USA which also showed very strong support for the public option.
Minimum Wage
Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.
The tea party want to abolish the minimum wage. Did YOU VOTE?
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