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Low-Wage Workers Butt Heads With 21st Century Capital
Rigorously empirical studies have consistently found no significant effects on employment due to minimum wage increases.
Teachers, Unions, Students Build Trinational Movement Against Neoliberal Education
Resistance to the global corporate education reform movement gained momentum last month as nearly 200 educators, students, and community allies from Mexico, Canada, and the US gathered in Chicago.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IMF Calls Lawmakers to Raise the Minimum Wage, and More
Senate Republicans are simply repackaging old ideas and trying to pass them off as pro-worker, and more.
Another US Spying Problem in Latin America: The US Drug Enforcement Agency
Meanwhile in Brazil, although both Dilma and former President Lula have called for apologies from President Obama for the abuses, U.S. officials have made it clear that this will …
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The ALEC Angle in Scott Walker’s “Toxic Strain of Racial Politics“
Walker pushed ALEC-inspired tough-on-crime measures that experts say contributed to Wisconsin having the country's highest rate of African-American men behind bars.
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From Stand-Up to Twitter, a New Generation’s Fresh Take on Storytelling
Today's storytellers show that each of us can be part of something more powerful, diverse, and creative than we might have imagined.
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Two States Beef Up Oil-by-Rail and Pipeline Safety After String of Accidents
Other states that have surging oil-by-rail traffic and pipelines carrying tar sands are expected to consider similar safety requirements.
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Drowning in Profits: A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence and the Price of a Child’s Death
The most controversial development in America's housing
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Dahr Jamail | Farming for the Future
On the outskirts of Houston, Texas, a small farm that runs a community-supported agriculture operation and offers educational programs, is preparing people for the intensifying impacts of anthropogenic climate …
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Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids Are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will
Carson Luke, a young boy with autism, shattered bones in his hand and foot after educators grabbed him and tried to shut him into a “scream room.” Kids across …