BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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BackgroundToday (really, yesterday) I attended the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-in (or counter-conference, or counter-summit) held at George Washington University in DC.  It was held partly in protest of another conference being held by a right-wing think tank, also in DC, about how to gut the remaining pillars of the US welfare state: Social Security and Medicare.  This counter-conference presented an alternative vision based on full employment as the primary target of all economic policy and unemployment as a massive ongoing cost that dwarfs most other costs, including particular …
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