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One of the basic pay to play schemes we see in most states and in the Federal government involves the privatization of government services to third party contractors who …

Losing your job is hard on any worker. But imagine discovering from the company website that your job is gone. It happened in December to 136 employees …

President Obama’s most recent budget, released today, featured the “Buffett Rule,” named after and supported by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, which would require millionaires to pay a minimum 30 …

An Afghan woman at a bazaar held at Camp Eggers in Afghanistan. (Photo: Petty Officer 1st Class Denise Alford) The women of Afghanistan are amazing. Despite decades …

President Barack Obama speaks at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia, on February 13, 2012. Obama revealed a spending plan for 2013 on Monday that plans to attain …

Despite the widespread international denunciation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the government in Damascus continues to crack down hard on the country’s growing domestic opposition. “They are moving in …

With Wall Street profits and bonuses falling and big banks cutting jobs right and left, it seems that the financial services sector would be scaling back its free-spending ways. …

Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced that he would use the funds his state received from a $26 billion mortgage settlement between 49 states and the nation’s …

A broad coalition of the grassroots progressive movement is launching a 24-hour effort to mobilize 500,000 people opposing Republican efforts to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. GOP …

For the last several days there has been an absolute furor over the Obama administration's decision to require employer health insurance plans to cover birth control. Republicans went so …