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How to Fix Health Care Without the Mandate
What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down the “individual mandate” in the health care reform law? Commentators ranging from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to Forbes Magazine columnist Rick Ungar agree: Such …
Self-Reporting Creates $385 Billion “Tax Gap“
The real divide in US incomes isn't between the top 1 percent and the other 99 percent. It's between those whose income is reported by their employers to the …
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UN Calls for Immediate Halt of Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh
Despite glossy PR materials touting its ability to deliver on sustainable development and energy access goals, the coal industry routinely threatens human rights around the world, particularly in South …
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US Hedge Fund Managers Can Buy Anything, Except Respect
Traders on the floor of the stock exchange on Wall Street continue their work as President Obama gives a speech about banking reforms at Cooper Union in Manhattan Thursday, …
The “Suicidal State” and the War on Youth
For over thirty years, the North American public has been reared on a neoliberal dystopian vision.
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Scott Walker Quietly Signs Anti-Abortion, Abstinence Bills on Eve of Holiday
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference at the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, February 24, 2011. (Photo: Max Whittaker / The New York Times)Gov. Scott Walker …
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How Occupy Wall Street Plans to Take Down Bank of America, and How You Can Help
Bank of America: the very name is meant to conjure up comforting, red-white-and-blue fantasies of a bank of the people, by the people, and for the people. But as Matt …
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Something Fishy: CRS Report Downplays Fukushima’s Effect on US Marine Environment
Late Thursday, the United States Coast Guard reported that they had successfully scuttled the Ryou-Un Maru, the Japanese “Ghost Ship” that had drifted into US waters after being torn from its …
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Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage
‘Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedomFrom the day that I was born I’ve waved the flagPhiladelphia freedom took me knee-high to a manYeah, gave me peace of …
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Judge Rules Wells Fargo Engages in “Reprehensible,” Systemic Accounting Abuses on Mortgages
One of our ongoing frustrations about media coverage of the mortgage mess is its failure to pay much attention to ample evidence of substantial servicer overcharges to borrowers. It’s …