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Thom's blog
70,000 more Americans cut off from unemployment insurance
The National Employment Law Project is reporting that another 70,000 Americans will be cut off from unemployment insurance next month. Already – nearly half a million Americans have lost their unemployment benefits this year thanks to austerity measures demanded by Republicans in Congress – and rubber-stamped by Democrats and President Obama – that cut unemployment insurance down from 99 weeks to 79 weeks in states that haven’t seen their unemployment situations get worse. That even includes states like Florida, Nevada, and Illinois that all have unemployment rates above the national average.
So what does this mean? Aside from the moral crisis of pushing families into desperation – it’s also bad for the economy as money is being taken out of the hands of Americans who would normally spend it and stimulate the economy. Republicans have been pushing policies that will crash the economy – just so they have a better chance at beating President Obama in November. And unfortunately Democrats are letting them get away with it.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Get out your tin foil hat for the new GOP platform (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Get out your tin foil hat for the new GOP platform- Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future 
Screwed: The new "kill list"...making America weaker?- Ryan Mauro, National Security Analyst-RadicalIslam.org 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
How the Koch Bros are getting right wingers to Wisconsin- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Charlie the tuna glows in the dark? - Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Daily Take: Will Florida do it again?
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm
Hour One: One week to recall...Did Scott Walker Lie Under Oath to Congress?- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Will Florida do it again?
Hour Two: Get out your tin foil hat for the new GOP platform- Mark Williams, Former Chair-Tea Party Express
Hour Three: Congressmen obey lobbyists...request carcinogens in their own offices- Lee Fang, RepublicReport.org
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." -- Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist.
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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Thom's Poll
Radioactive fish are now swimming off the coast of California. Should we be concerned about Fukushima radiation here in the US?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Business of Government is not Business
Conversations w/Great Minds - Paul Krugman - End This Depression Now P1
Conversations w/Great Minds - Paul Krugman - End This Depression Now P2
Big Picture Rumble - Is Conservative Populism Dead?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 5/25/12: Conversations with Great Minds: Paul Krugman
Thom talks with economist Paul Krugman in tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds." Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Romney's "bold" call for 6% unemployment by 2016, the end of conservative populism and how it would take the average worker 244 years to match a CEO's annual salary. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom wonders why poor white Americans favor Romney over Obama.
Thom Hartmann on the News - May 25, 2012
Brunch with Bernie - May 25, 2012
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