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Raising the Minimum Wage: A Sure Path to Economic Health
It's simple: Raise the pay of working people, and as the workers buy more goods and services with their new earnings, the businesses that sell them will hire more …
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Andy Stern Responds to Critics of His Post-SEIU Career
Former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern has long faced criticism from dissidents within his own union that he sold out workers in order to accommodate corporate …
Wellness Programs: Is It Our Fault We Get Sick?
Corporate wellness programs, according to critics, would rather place the blame solely on the plate of individual workers.
Why Romney Insulted the Palestinians
A favorite neocon theme is that the superiority of Western culture explains the worldu2019s wealth disparities, not the accident of natural resources and the aggressive use of military force.
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Is Dilbit Oil? Congress and the IRS Say No
Dilbit is exempt from an oil tax that is used to clean up conventional crude and dilbit spills. The exemption is worth $35 million a year, and growing.
Obama’s Second Term Agenda: Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and/or Medicaid
The White House already tried cutting all three main entitlement programs, last year (cuts to Medicaid are actually cuts to Obamacare, for what itu2019s worth, since an expansion of …
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The Cult Film and Documentary Maker Chris Marker Has Passed Away
Marker remains the best kept secret of French cinema.
Human Dignity: A Casualty of War
War encourages dehumanization and breeds atrocity. This, in part, is what makes the current evolution of warfare so terrifying.
Turning Towards Nonviolence: A Response to the Aurora, Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
Father John Dear: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. both insisted that we need a fundamental internal conversion from violence to nonviolence as the basis for our work …
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Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone
Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a …