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On the Money: What a Tangled Web We Weave
Gail Ablow from Moyers & Company provides a critical reading list for the issues that made the headlines this week.
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New York University Ramps Up Internship Oversight
After pressure from students, NYU's career center has implemented a number of measures to improve screening of the internship listings it features online.
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Quit Talking About Equal Pay and Do Something
It's a hallmark of the Obama presidency: talk about change, but not deliver any. Will the president's pledge on equal pay suffer the same fate?
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Feds Won’t Enforce Money-Laundering Laws Against Banks Doing Business With Pot Stores
But many banks will still be uneasy since federal law is not changing.
Left Out of the Narrative: LGBTQ Undocumented Detainees
Undocumented LGBTQ people are caught in a double bind of belonging neither in white mainstream LGBTQ narrative nor in the mainstream immigrant narrative.
Any National “Conversation About Race” Must Include Black Radical Tradition
What passes for most ‘conversations about race,’ particularly in corporate media, which shape public perception, are narrow or wrong.
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Corporations? Corporations? Nobody Here but Us Chickens
Author Donald Lazere details the means by which American corporations render their own political and economic power invisible.
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The Invisible Hands That Do All the Work
The 16 oral histories in Corinne Goria's excellent anthology, ‘Invisible Hands’, elucidates the realities behind the scenes of the so-called global economy.
Political Economist Answers: What’s So Dangerous About Austerity?
Austerity policies are dangerous because they don't achieve their purported goals and harm those with the least political power, political economist and author Mark Blyth tells Truthout.
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Unequal Justice
The SCHR alone has repeatedly sued the state of Georgia for underfunding its public defender system to the point where defendants lack any reasonable semblance of representation.