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Billionaires, Ballots and a State Budget Crisis Drive Education Reform in Washington State: A Case Study
Well-funded education reform groups have decided to take matters into their own hands.
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World Bank on Climate: “Turn Down the Heat” – Is It Really This Bad?
Impacts of climate change are worse than stated, but solutions could be easier than commonly understood.
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How We Can All Make Money Like the Billionaires
From Wall Street to Big Oil to the for-profit health insurance industry, business decisions are geared to increase the wealth of shareholders.
Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style
The sad fact is that Zero Dark Thirty could have been written by the tight circle of national security advisors who counseled President George W. Bush to create the …
TSA Union Gets Sacramento Airport Privatization Revoked: County Board Votes to Rescind Airport Privatization Approval
fter close to one year of lobbying efforts and a public campaign, the American Federation of Government Employees—the union for TSA workers in Sacramento and nationwide—today applauded the Sacramento …
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The Grime Behind the Crime
Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?
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The Sacred Cow of American Tax Spending
2012 headlines were full of horrible depressing news: cuts on the federal, state, county and the city level. The nation was subjected to a full time diet of descriptions …
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World Bank’s IFC Arm Responds to Our Critique of Its Poverty Fighting
The IFC responds to a recent critique written by the staff at ProPublica.
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If They Come for Us in the Morning: An Open Letter to Detroiters from Elected School Board Members
I am writing to you to fill in the silence of the sheep. The sheep I refer to here are the mass media, printed or electronic, and local elected …
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Managers’ Liberation in Michigan: The Ideology of “Right to Work”
Something is happening in Michigan. After a failed attempt in the 2012 election to make collective bargaining a right under Michigan's constitution, Republicans fast-tracked a “right-to-work” law enabling employees …