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What’s Really Driving Inequality?
The World Bank is driving the inequality that is a defining problem of our times through its “Doing Business” rankings and criteria.
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William Rivers Pitt | Weaponized Cops and the Future of Freedom
It is hard to avoid the feeling that the tremendous arming of the police is inspired by the fear of unrest looming over the horizon, of rising seas, rising …
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A Fish Swims Like a Fish
The loss of sincerity, of humility as a product of deep practice is anethema to the corporate culture industry. Sincerity is vulnerability, it is the deep strength of a …
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Thirty-Five Years of a Not-Boring Labor Movement
Editor Jane Slaughter speaks at the 2014 Labor Notes Conference.
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Poverty Is Killing Us
It's time to eliminate poverty in the United States, and give everyone a shot at living the American Dream.
Ten Years After His Release From Prison, Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is Still Not Free
Vanunu remains under restrictions which require him to report and gain approval for any change in residence, to avoid diplomatic missions, to not speak to foreign nationals and which …
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An Apartheid of Dollars: Life in the New American Minimum-Wage Economy
Peter Van Buren took an unlikely fall into the minimum-wage world when he lost his job in 2012. He gives us a first-hand look at what it's like to …
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Privatized Suffering
Americans are buying into politicians like Hilary Clinton, despite their moral transgressions.
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Thinking Big: The Global Minimum Wage
Let's finally get globalization to work for people and begin - perhaps with anti-sweatshop campaigns - to organize for a global minimum wage.
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Ecuador: Despite All Odds, Activists Present Signatures Needed to Save Yasuní
Activists struggle to save Yasuni, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.