MONEY SUPPLY TRANSFERS

Unionized Wages

The $28 hourly wage that workers in unionized plants outside the South used to count on looks increasingly like a relic of the broadly shared prosperity that America used to enjoy. With private-sector unions now weakened by ineffectual labor laws and implacable employer opposition, manufacturing wages have been slashed to $14 an hour, or lower, in many places. Meanwhile, wages in retail and most other service sectors are unlikely to rise while historically higher wages in manufacturing continue to plummet. No wonder more and more Americans can’t afford to buy houses, despite record-low mortgage rates.

Republican Cooperation

  Quote: Obama, a mediator by instinct and experience, paid a deep price by trying to pursue bipartisan cooperation.
This appears to be one of Obama's main weaknesses. Even the recent so called JOBS bill was something that shouldn't have been approved by him and the Dems as it will move more jobs outside the country and further restrict regulations on Wall Street, where much of this fiscal mess occurred.
I think Obama is a brilliant man, but I often wonder why he gives so much up to this Party of No who in reality have absolutely no intention of compromising, who care nothing for the middle class or their jobs, or their health, or their education, or anything

ED MARKEY BUDGET SPEECH

As families and businesses across the country are completing their income tax returns and evaluating their finances, Congress also is reassessing the nation’s budget priorities.
House Republicans recently passed a budget that ends the Medicare guarantee for millions of seniors while continuing to give tax breaks to billionaires and big subsidies to oil companies that already are raking in record profits. Instead of laying the groundwork for a prosperous future for the middle class and working families, Republicans passed a budget full of the failed economic policies of the past – tax breaks for the rich and subsidies for Big Oil.
Watch my speech in opposition to the Republican budget on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives

MASS SENIOR ACTION MALDEN CHAPTER

The John   and Christina Markey Malden Senior Community Center, which
opened in 2009   in a former church on Washington Street, has won a top
honor from the   National Community Development Association.
The center received the   association's 2012 Audrey Nelson Community
Development Achievement Award,   recognizing the best use of federal
Community Development Block Grant money   to improve low-income
neighborhoods. Nominations for the award are accepted   from communities
across the country.
The Malden Redevelopment   Authority nominated the senior center, which
is named for the parents of   Congressman Edward J. Markey, a Democrat
from Malden.
"The [MRA]   staff deserves a lot of credit," said Stephen M. Wishoski,
executive   director of the MRA.
MASS SENIOR ACTION MALDEN CHAPTER SHOULD BE   RECOGNIZED They were the
driving force and influence with the mayors office   and overcoming
Resistance to moving the Center from the basement Thanks to   our City
Council for listening and joining in presenting Issues need   and
support.
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Howard McGowan
MaldenSenior