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Jim Hightower: Five Million Missing American Workers
We need a national ‘milk carton’ campaign to spread awareness of these lost workers.
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Seven Things Veterans Need More Than a Holiday
If the US were really committed to its troops after they complete their tours of duty, why are veterans facing so many hardships back at home?
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Investment in Manufacturing and Infrastructure Is Seed Corn of Economy
Making (and growing) things to sell to others is the key to prosperity, a middle class and a positive trade balance.
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The Future in a Dazzling Shanghai
The biggest winner from the US government shutdown and near credit default may be China as it pushes for a “de-Americanized” world economy, a future on display in a …
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Heartless for the Holidays: Why Do Rich and Powerful People Engage in Callous Behavior?
This holiday season, kids in America's poorest families will have less to eat.
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Four Signs That Regular Folks Can Still Win (and One That Shows the Power of Money)
Here are four cases in Tuesday's election where people power won out over corporate interests. And one that went the other way.
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Guns but No Butter
The Right's war on the poor rages on, but as food stamps are slashed, Congress lavishes money on military projects that are judged wasteful or useless.
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US a Favorite Roost of Vulture Funds
Countries that have gone through severe external debt crisis may have been saved the severe shocks to their economies and austerity restructuring if reasonable principles were in place.
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The Original “Occupy”: Novel Was Written 100 Years Before Zuccotti Park
Author John de Graaf discovers a little-known American classic and a history that should repeat itself.
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Will the Tea Party Pay for the Shutdown?
The Democratic Party's failure to seriously challenge Wall Street could allow the Tea Party to hold on to the populist mantle.