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Disaster personnel and volunteers have to rely critical federal funding that's been slashed.

The "deficit problem" is man-made. The deficit is now down 60 percent as a percent of gross domestic product. It is down more than the deficit hawks Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles asked for. This rapid reduction is seriously hurting the economy and jobs, but demands for cuts continue. It is time for Congress and the President to "pivot" to focusing on our real problems: the jobs gap, the wage gap and the trade gap.

The young are idled; their hopes crushed. Americans are paying a terrible price for Washington’s folly.

Austerity and corruption – and disgust at the style of the presidency – have created profound disillusionment on the left

Researchers say more than 10,000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression have been diagnosed during what they call the "Great Recession" and its accompanying austerity across Europe and North America.