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Dying To Give Back To the Earth
The funeral industry is, by and large, a $20 billion for-profit enterprise, whose environmental impact has been greatly overlooked.
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With Hippocratic Oath, Doctors Pledge Allegiance To Patients, Not Profits
It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.
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Dahr Jamail | Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site Highlights Problems
A recent fire and radiation release at a uranium repository in New Mexico has brought renewed focus on what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste.
Dean Baker | The Texas-California Job Growth Derby
In recent months conservatives have been boasting about the strong job growth of red state Texas compared to the much weaker job growth of blue state California. It's worth …
New Lawsuit Alleges That Wells Fargo Has a Manual for Mass Fabrication of Foreclosure Documents
A Federal lawsuit looks to have unearthed a smoking gun about systematic document fabrication at Wells Fargo.
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Oh, the Humanity
There are now some 5.66 million missing workers in the United States, neither counted nor accounted for. To notice them would be to raise the unemployment rate to at …
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Recalled to Life
The poor in America usually get only one chance. Then it is over. Those who were on the street with Christine Pagano in Camden will most likely never have …
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To Infinity and Beyond: Navigating the Global Void
Disappearance is the most tortuous form of violence, because it lives on in our imaginations as a resilient psychosis of loss, says James Fennell.
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The NLRB Must Restore Democracy in Chattanooga
The National Labor Relations Board must overturn the tainted union election at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee for five main reasons.
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Exxon Spill: 25 Years of Tears
Twenty Five years after the fact, Exxon has yet to pay Alaska the $92 million owed for damages from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. They privatized their profits and …