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The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society and Securing Bonded Labor
Millennials are forecast to experience a decline in standards of living comparative to their forebears.
Challenging Corporations’ “Right” to Grow GMOs in Rural Oregon
Simon Davis-Cohen sat down with Benton Food Freedom communication director Stephanie Hampton.
Guatemalan Domestic Workers Reveal a Dirty Business
Fidelia Castellanos' story is the story of thousands of Guatemalan women.
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Boatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be “Floating Graveyard” on Southeast Asian Waters
This ship and its desperate human cargo symbolizes the plight of a persecuted people, and the harsh migration policies of a handful of Southeast Asian countries.
Dean Baker | The Incredible Arrogance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Crowd
There are few policies that show the split between elite opinion and everyone else as clearly as trade policy.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership-Related Bill Contains a Medicare Poison Pill
The Medicare cuts in the trade adjustment assistance bill set a dangerous precedent, allowing Congress to treat Medicare like its own personal piggy bank.
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Welcome to the Era of Stop-Go Austerity
The recovery of 2013-2015, which is falsely viewed as a vindication of austerity, is likely to prove self-defeating.
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Writing History Before It Happens: Nine Surefire Future Headlines From a Bizarre World
There's a certain repetition factor in our increasingly bizarre US-dominated world that lends predictability to the future.
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The New York Times Ignores Dangerous Consequences of Pro-Israel Amendment to the Trade Promotion Authority
The intended targets of this effort are the countries of the EU that have called on Israel to clearly mark whether products they export originate in settlements in occupied …
Middle Class? What Middle Class?
Virtually the only class ever mentioned these days is the middle class, and now that seems on the way out.