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Good Riddance to Good Government and Good Jobs?
Employers who pay low wages and provide low quality or no health insurance shift costs to the taxpayers in the forms of welfare, food supplements, health care and wage …
Are Heartless People Simply Born That Way?
An insensitivity toward the problems poor people face, researchers have shown, reflects a deeper psychological shift that extreme inequality makes all but inevitable.
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One Million K-12 Students Are Homeless
The Department of Education released its latest report on homeless students last month and the numbers are startling.
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Trayvon Martin’s Mother Goes to Washington
Trayvon Martin's mother testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee reviewing the ‘public safety implications’ of the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law.
A Month in to Healthcare.gov, Real-Life Winners and Losers
While it may be too soon to tell, here is a tentative breakdown of who benefits most from the ACA and who loses most.
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Hubris Versus Wisdom
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger warns, 'We can follow wisdom and live together as humans ... or we can ... perish together stuck in our apathy, our …
Mates in War Reporting Testify to Crimes Against Humanity
In an excerpt from his memoir about working with war correspondent Marie Colvin, ‘Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Final Assignment,’ photographer Paul Conroy describes his strained relationships at home …
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WikiLeaks’ “Mediastan”; The True Fifth Estate Bringing the First Amendment to the World
The WikiLeaks documentary ‘Mediastan’ is a perfect antidote to Disney's propaganda turkey, ‘The Fifth Estate.’
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Inside the Psyche of the 1%
The unsuccessful psychopath might go to jail for swindling dozens of people with home improvement scams while successful psychopaths might swindle millions with bank deals, get bailed out by …
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Are Those Companies’ Charitable Proceeds Actually Going to Charity?
While initially their goals might have been to prepare statements for annual reports about where all the company's charitable donations were going, marketing departments recognized that they also had, …