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Wall Street Bonuses vs. the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage would give our economy much more bang for the buck than we get from the financial industry's yearly windfalls.
Accounting for a Decade of Global War
The United States' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights includes violations that must be sanctioned.
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Education in the Name of Social Transformation: Teaching Workers
Michael Yates discusses the importance of not just organizing workers, but teaching radical ideas.
New report: UN stuck in denial over cannabis regulation
The current trend towards legal regulation of the cannabis market has become irreversible and requires an urgent dialogue by UN member states on the best models for protecting people's …
Ceasefire Arrested in South Sudan: Uganda, IGAD and the Resurgence of Violence
Ethnic violence continues to smoulder throughout several states in South Sudan despite an official cessation of hostilities signed on the 23rd of January, 2014
Women Are Three-Quarters of Workers In the 10 Largest Low-Wage Jobs, Wage Gaps Exist In All But Three Occupations, NWLC Analysis Shows
Women are three-quarters of workers in the largest, lowest-wage occupations.
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Detained, Deported, but not Deterred: Egypt Stops International Women’s Day Delegation to Gaza
On International Women's Day, although I woke up in America, my heart was in Gaza. After having been detained for over 22 hours in the Cairo airport without explanation, …
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It’s Time to End All Drug Testing
As the reality of legalized marijuana inches closer and closer every day, more and more Americans are rethinking our society's attitude towards drugs.
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Vermonters Want To Try a New Way of Banking
Vermont is currently considering massive changes in the way it conducts banking by instituting a public bank of its own.
From Fallujah to the San Fernando Valley, Police Use Analytics to Target “High-Crime” Areas
Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …