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Homeless Family Occupies Foreclosed Home in Brooklyn
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Senate Blocks Obama Choice for Consumer Panel
Washington - The Senate on Thursday blocked President Obama’s nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as filibustering Republicans who oppose the very powers of the new agency …
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Occupy the Police State
Police officers in riot gear form a line near Occupy Los Angeles protesters outside City Hall in Los Angeles, November 30, 2011. This image is nearly identical to the …
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LA and Occupy LA Agree: It’s Time to End Corporate Personhood
On December 3, just two days before Occupy L.A. was evicted by police, the General Assembly of the occupation passed a unanimous resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to …
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Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion in Revenue Over the Last Three Years
ThinkProgress has documented the repeated tax dodging of large corporations, some of which, like GE, have gone entire years without paying taxes despite hauling in massive profits. Now, that …
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Unemployed Confront Congress at Take Back the Capitol
Today thousands of unemployed people and others came to D.C. to tell Congress and “K Street” that they need jobs not cuts; that we should tax the rich, and …
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Obama Appeals for a New Commitment to a Fair America
Osawatomie, Kansas - President Barack Obama cast the national debate and developing 2012 presidential campaign Tuesday as a battle between two visions of the economy, government and society. …
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Blagojevich Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Prison
Chicago - Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for 18 felony corruption convictions, including trying to sell …
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Sebelius Overrules FDA Decision to Widen Access to Morning-After Pill
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, at a briefing at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington, on May 27, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett …
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Koch Political Group Brags About Bullying GOP Lawmakers Into Denying Climate Science
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In its cover story this week, the National Journal explores a curious phenomenon: while the science supporting climate change has only gotten …