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Myths of Job-Killing Robots Obscure Real Causes of Inequality
The data is clear: Insofar as people are seeing job opportunities disappear, it is due to factors other than robots.
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Prison Rips Babies From the Arms of Their Mothers: A View From Behind Bars
Children are the “collateral damage” of a system obsessed with punishing rather than supporting mothers.
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Fighting for the Sanctuary Workplace: Unions Mobilize to Protect Undocumented Workers
Unions, workers and their allies are organizing to make workplaces into sanctuaries against immigration raids.
Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project
As a settler-colonial project steeped in white supremacist domination and capitalist ideals, the US is and always has been an ideal fascist breeding ground.
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US Women Are Disproportionately Burdened by College Debt
The student loan debt crisis is a glaring example of systemic gender inequality in 2017.
From War to Cholera, Yemen Is Facing World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis
The cholera death toll has risen to 1,054.
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Interior Secretary Attempts to Justify Deep Cuts to Native American Education Program
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has received a stream of criticism over how the austerity blueprint hits Indigenous Americans particularly hard.
Farming, Hunting Push Thousands of Species Toward Extinction
A team of ecologists argues that a smarter approach to how we feed people could help save threatened animals.
Democratic Resistance to GOP Senate Health Care Push Takes Shape
A Democratic aide revealed that Democrats would withhold consent on nearly every GOP request in the Senate.
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Migrant Workers Pour Trillions Into World Economy
The flow of money from migrants to their families in lower income countries has doubled over the last decade, according to a recent a study.