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How to Know When to Tax and When to Spend
Republicans have either forgotten or just ignored these common-sense Economics 101 principles that have guided our nation for hundreds of years.
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Lords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else
Richard Eskow: We're demanding sacrifice from the middle class - pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn't too big to fail.
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Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devastatingly Cynical“
Keystone XL will require Obama to issue formal authorization, a key bit of leverage that activists are now hoping to use in the weeks ahead.
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“Bless Me, Ultima”: Movie Revisits Controversy, Succeeds, After 40 Years
Brown faces, magic of northern New Mexico's landscapes and Indo-Hispano culture in movie, Bless Me, Ultima, charm Roberto Rodriguez.
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How Inequality Is Killing the Dinosaurs
What killed the dinosaurs the first time around? Meteor? Global warming? Smoking? Salvatore Babones argues that the culprit for the loss and destruction of what little is left of …
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Five Reasons the Keystone Pipeline is Bad for the Economy
The American labor movement is once again facing a most controversial issue — the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. While the KXL debate has largely centered around the …
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No Safety in Being Armed, Why Does Myth Persist?
If being armed made you safe, no law enforcement officer would ever get killed. President Reagan would not have been shot and Chris Kyle, arguably the best shot in …
Middle-Out Economics 101
For more on CAP’s Middle-Out Economics project, please visit its project page. CAP Senior Economist Heather Boushey explains how middle-out economics helps bolster the U.S. economy.
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Time for Outrage!
“Ninety-three years old. The last leg of my journey. The end is in sight. I am lucky to be able to seize the time I have left to reflect …
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All the Eyes on Immigration Reform
The time for broad immigration reform in the United States has arrived. As a country founded by immigrants, the United States, which has long extolled the American dream and …