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Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million in Tax Breaks to the Average Millionaire
The Bush tax cuts delivered the weakest job growth of the post-war period.
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Six Things You Should Know About the $21 Trillion the World’s Richest People Are Hiding in Tax Shelters
A new report from the Tax Justice Network found trillions of untaxed wealth that the world's richest people are hiding.
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Correctional Corporation of America Accreditation Report Misses Stark Reality
But below the spin is a different reality for the company and the prisoners that it oversees - food riots and abuse scandals.
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Top DHS Officials Went Ballistic Over Rolling Stone Contributor Michael Hastings’ OWS Report, Internal Emails Show
Internal emails reveal DHS planned to challenge purported inaccuracies in a news story on surveillance of Occupy, but the inaccuracies appear to be confined to the agency's own documents.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democratic Party Supports Marriage Equality, and More
President Obama will likely become the first ever incumbent President to be outraised by his opponent in his re-election bid, On Monday, the Democratic Party platform drafting committee officially …
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America’s Green Summer: From Vermont to Appalachia to Texas, Citizens Say No to Dirty Power
If government took seriously the outrage across the country against environmental pillage, it might respond legislatively rather than militarily. But rather than waiting for either response, people are acting …
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The Cost of Being Raped
For years, hospitals in northeastern Wisconsin have billed sexual assault victims as much as $1,200 for the cost of their examinations, according to a new investigation.
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Less Wall, More Street: Building Solidarity to Fight Repression From Coast to Coast
The project, called Less Wall More Street, seeks to help people make the connections between the repression of Occupy, the ongoing general repression of activists beyond that, and the …
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Special Investigation: The Earthquakes and Toxic Waste of Ohio’s Fracking Boom
Between the spring of 2011 and early 2012, a fracking waste injection well known as Northstar 1 caused more than a dozen minor earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio, including one …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Probe Reveals For-Profit Colleges’ Questionable Compensation Practices, and More
In today's On the News segment: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform finds for-profit colleges pay executives massive salaries based solely on schools' profitability, a Koch-bankrolled climate …