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Cantor’s “Small Business” Jobs Bill Gives Millionaires an Average Tax Cut of $45,000
Earlier today ThinkProgress reported that the House Ways and Means Committee is expected to approve a proposal by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) that is misleadingly entitled the …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Newt Gingrich Campaign Is Sinking, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Newt Gingrich campaign is sinking, austerity is hurting the British economy even more than previously thought, more bad news is coming out …
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Organized Money From Cities, Unions and Churches Moving Out of Big Banks
It's getting expensive these days to be a bad citizen in America, if you're a major bank. A growing number of cities around the country have passed, introduced or …
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GOP National Labor Board Relations Member Passed Sensitive Information to Romney Campaign
Earlier this month, Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, complained that House GOP members were blocking the release of a National Labor …
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How the Koch Brothers Spent at Least $3.9 Million in Unreported Partisan Attack Efforts During the 2010 Election
David Koch, center, a billionaire known for his family's contributions to conservative causes, listens as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the fifth annual Defending the American Dream …
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Texas Prosecutors Go Rogue – And Get Away with It!
John Thompson spent 18 years in prison — 14 of them on death row — for crimes he did not commit. But as he was facing his seventh execution …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: ExxonMobil Continues to Benefit From Taxpayer Subsidies, and More
In today's On the News segment:Â More than eight in ten school districts across the nation say they are inadequately funded; support for the Afghanistan war has now reached an …
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Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage
The current value of the federal minimum wage — $7.25 per hour — is often compared to the cost of living, the average wage in the economy, or the …
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Hard Questions From Justices Over Insurance Mandate
Washington - With the fate of President Obama's health care law hanging in the balance at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a lawyer for the administration faced a barrage …
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Fired for a Short Skirt? The Realities of Anti-Worker Laws in Wisconsin and Ohio
Last year's labor protests across the Midwest rattled the country. They shook Republican politicians who thought they'd have an easy time erasing union workers' rights. They spurred thousands of …