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Robert Reich Debunks Six Big GOP Lies About the Economy
Though Nuclear Crisis Continues, IAEA Can’t Force Safety Overhaul
On Monday, September 12, an incinerator explosion at a French nuclear waste processing center killed one, injured four, and created just enough nuclear news to edge this week’s other …
Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
Washington - While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case …
Who’s Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
Kelly Wiedemer, an information technology operations analyst who said she was told she would be a "hard sell" because she had been out of work for more than six …
Lost, Abused and Neglected for a Profit
Guillermo Gomez-Sanchez is a 50-year-old legal resident with a mental disability. In 2004, Gomez was detained because of a dispute at a grocery store over a bag of tomatoes. …
From Attica to Pelican Bay
Forty years ago, on September 9th, 1971, prisoners protesting medieval conditions rebelled at Attica, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York. Four days later the state launched a violent …
Middle-Class Death Watch: As Poverty Spreads, 28 Percent of Americans Fall Out of Middle Class
Middle-Class Americans Often Fall Down Economic Ladder: Study – nearly a third of Americans who were part of the middle class have fallen out of it
Throw the Bums Out
Grover Norquist, president of a taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) With recent polls announcing the …
Mandatory E-Verify Would Overwhelm Social Security Administration, Increase Disability Backlog
(Photo: longislandwins / Flickr) The train of threats to Social Security this year keeps on rolling, this time from the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The …
Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti: Neoliberalism Off the Richter Scale
Two days before the earthquake, my one-year-old son and I accompanied my wife to Haiti for an HIV training course she was to conduct. Two days after surviving the …