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For Safer Factories, CEOs Are Listening to Workers on the Frontlines
The future of corporate responsibility means hearing firsthand from factory workers about their conditions.
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Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Found in Water at Fracking Sites
A study of hydraulic fracturing sites in Colorado finds substances that have been linked to infertility, birth defects and cancer.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japan Not Capable of Decommissioning Fukushima Alone, and More
According to experts, Japan is not capable of decommissioning the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant without outside help, and more.
Brave New Foundation’s Series on Prison Profiteering
Each part of this series by the Brave New Foundation exposes an aspect of corruption in the American prison systems in the name of profit.
Report Finds Police Intelligence Gathering Tactics Threaten National Security
A lack of oversight in counterterrorism programs causes critical intelligence to fall through the cracks.
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More Trouble for Bulletproof Securities in Wisconsin: Did It Break the Law Again?
Private security firm Bulletproof Securities may have broken the law by misleading regulators when it finally got around to applying for its license.
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Five Unnecessary SWAT Team Raids Gone Terribly Wrong
Here are five examples when the SWAT team was wholly unnecessary.
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Women and LGBT Activists Fighting Street Harassment Hollaback! – And It’s Working
Mobile app Hollaback! is creating a unique, crowd-sourced initiative to end street harassment.
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Supreme Court Dismisses Mulhall v. Unite Here, Giving Labor a Lucky Escape
In the “card check” process, one type of neutrality agreement, an employer agrees to recognize a union if a majority of workers sign union cards.
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Did ALEC Found SPN? 1991 Report Suggests So, Exposes SPN Agenda
The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network was “launched by ALEC ... and housed in the Chicago-based Heartland Institute,” says a 1991 report.