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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights responded to news of Sunday's deficit reduction deal by urging lawmakers to take seriously the need to create jobs for struggling and unemployed Americans.

The best thing that can be said about the distasteful debt ceiling deal is that it is behind us and hopefully the real challenges and issues facing the American people can now be frankly addressed.

The Republican-manufactured debt crisis and the subsequent compromise "budget control act" will kill jobs, more than 300,000 by some estimates. Of course, one could always look at the silver lining and remind us that an economic collapse generated by a tea party-provoked default would have killed 650,000 jobs.

One of the things many who consider themselves politically active would like to do is fundamentally change the United States from capitalist to socialist. But to do that we would have to have the majority of the people begin to believe that socialism is a better system than capitalism.

The average car fuel economy will nearly double by 2025 to almost 55 miles per gallon, President Obama announced July 29 in a White House gathering that included both auto company executives and UAW representatives.

WOODLAWN, Md. - It was billed as a vigil, but it was clearly a thumpin' rally of 300 people saying "Hands off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid."

The latest news has muted, but falling, markets in the wake of Republican Speaker John Boehner walking out of debt-ceiling negotiations with the President. The Sunday night deadline the President set for congressional action passed without any new agreement to raise the debt-ceiling.

The average car fuel economy will nearly double by 2025 to almost 55 miles per gallon, President Obama announced July 29 at a White House gathering that included both auto company executives and UAW representatives.