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America’s Ten Largest Corporations Paid Nine Percent Average Tax Rate Last Year
How much did you have to pay in taxes last year? The country's biggest corporations only had to pay nine percent.
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Bill Clinton Blasts Romney’s “Disappointing” New Welfare Claim
Clinton called Romney's charge against Obama's alleged plan to gut welfare reform
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Ten Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong
When it comes to education reform, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel anymore; instead we're building square ones.
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A Legislative Model for Dismantling Debtors’ Prisons
Illinois provides a new model for dismantling debtors' prisons across the country.
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The Koch Brothers Go After Actor Zach Galifianakis and the Film “The Campaign“
In the movie, Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow are a stand-in for the real-life right-wing political funders Charles and David Koch, and the Kochs aren't happy.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More
In today's On the News segment:Â The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on …
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Obama Signs Law Giving Health Care to Lejeune Tainted Water Victims
President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at …
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the companyu2019s hospitals …
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Group That Sustains ALEC’s Voter Suppression Agenda Releases Sham “Study,” to Acclaim From Right-Wing Media
A right-wing group that pledged to
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Emails Give Glimpse Into Deals That Fueled Financial Meltdown
As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. …