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Does the Economy Serve Us or Them?
The endless stream of mergers and acquisitions over the past 34 years has taken away most all of the competition and has concentrated power.
Ikea Agrees to Pay Its Workers More Than Minimum Wage
Jeannette Wicks-Lim: There's a growing trend among the world's major corporations to voluntarily increase their workers' wages.
Is This the Dawn of a Renewable Energy Revolution?
Peter Sinclair says that utilities in time will become managers rather than owners of energy, and that the emerging systems are inherently anti-monopolistic.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Strikes Another Blow to Unions, and More
Our nation's highest court strikes another blow to public unions, and more.
Joseph Stiglitz: No, Spiraling Inequality Isn’t Inevitable
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to argue that there's no such thing as “natural” market forces.
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What West Virginia Can Learn From Sarah Palin
If that state put a tax on coal and gas extraction - effectively a carbon tax - and then cycled all of the money it took in back to …
Guantanamo Detainees Demand Same Religious Rights as Hobby Lobby
The banning of communal prayers at Guantanamo is one of a series of recent measures against detainees on hunger strike.
The Shifting, Double-edged Sword called ‘Populism’
Hell or high water, the protean, populist clamor sets disparate ordinary people against variously infamous foes.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Renewable Energy Is Spurring Billions of Dollars in Economic Development, and More
In today's On the News segment: Renewable energy isn't only outpacing new fossil fuel capacity, it's also spurring billions of dollars in economic development; the New York Court of …
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Worker-Owners Cheer Creation of $1.2 Million Co-op Development Fund in NYC
Noting the particular conditions that have helped secure local support for cooperatives in New York City and Jackson, the Democracy at Work Institute's Hoover acknowledges that activists are still …