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Campaigners Call for “One Fair Wage” to Help End Sexual Harassment for Tipped Restaurant Workers
A new report finds up to 90 percent of women working restaurant jobs that depend on tips have experienced workplace sexual harassment.
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Dahr Jamail | Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use “Genocide“
Contamination from depleted uranium munitions is causing sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq.
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Pesticide Use by Farmers Linked to High Rates of Depression, Suicides
Some research suggests that the chemicals that farmers and their workers spread on fields may alter certain brain chemicals.
AIG Bailout Trial Bombshells: The Repellent Hank Greenberg May Have a Case
“In this beauty contest between Cinderella's ugly sisters, in this case Hank Greenberg versus the team that led the AIG bailout, Greenberg may well come out looking better.”
The Death Penalty, Missouri and the Continued Devaluing of Black Life
Death penalty states like Missouri have been treating their predominantly black death row prisoners like test subjects while protests over the worth of black life continue in Ferguson.
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A Trip to Kuwait (on the Prairie): Life Inside the Boom
This summer, driven partially by North Dakota's boom, the United States surpassed Saudi Arabia in total oil and gas production.
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Investing in Junk Armies: Why US Efforts to Create Foreign Armies Fail
The foreign armies that the US invests so much money, time, and effort in training and equipping don't act as if the US' enemies are their enemies.
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The Case Against Raising Rates Too Early
“I find it very hard to understand why anyone thinks rates should rise even in 2015.”
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Is This “American Exceptionalism”?
The US will only be “exceptional” when all Americans have an equal shot at success.
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When Poverty Was the Enemy, Not the Poor
The poverty rate in the US would be 15 percent higher if not for the War on Poverty and government anti-poverty programs since 1967.