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Vermont Students, Workers Object to Tuition Dollars Being Used to Fund Poverty Wages
Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for workers at Vermont colleges are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality.
Massive Coal Ash Spill Chokes North Carolina River as EPA Considers Waste Rules
A ruptured Duke Energy pipe in Eden, North Carolina, caused the release of up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into …
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California’s Water Wars: 2014-2030
What happens after California drought, peak oil, climate chaos, economic depression and water privatization finally get to the population of the Golden State?
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The Too-Appealing “Wolf of Wall Street“
Martin Scorsese's “The Wolf of Wall Street” delivers high craft and a rollicking good time. And that's a big problem.
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Regarding Three-Piece Suits, Breakfast Meetings and Overwork
“If you were at all ambitious, you wore a three-piece suit every day. In Washington, DC, in July, that's completely crazy, but that was the point.”
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CVS Shows That Big Government Is Working
Today, CVS Caremark, the second-largest drugstore chain in the country, announced that it will stop selling all tobacco products by October 1.
The Health Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will Be the Future of Medicine
Few issues have become so intensely debated and politically charged as the need to reform the health care system.
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As Trans-Pacific Partnership Falters, Opponents Go After Fence-Sitting Pols
A trade deal likely to harm environmental and labor protections may be losing momentum. But it's not dead yet.
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Fast Track to Income Inequality
The major fight over fast track is in the House.
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How Eviction Resisters Are Using Stand-Your-Ground Laws To Challenge Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae evicted Mark Harris from his Atlanta home; now he and Occupy Our Homes Atlanta will argue that the eviction was unlawful.