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The Bitter Reality for Farmworkers
Farmworkers across the country who help harvest the food that will be prepared this holiday season continue to struggle under bitter working and living conditions.
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Ikea Isn’t Only Furnishing Your Bedroom, It’s Watching You There
Ikea's French unit has also been conducting surveillance of employees and even customers who complained about items that were not delivered.
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Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution
Take action to further the feminist revolution that will eradicate patriarchal domination and result in liberation for everyone.
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Centrists Have No Right to Lecture Anyone on Growth
Dean Baker: Policies promoted by people deemed as too left by New York Times editor Bill Keller are good candidates for increasing economic growth.
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A Jewish Atheist Responds to the Pope’s Call for Peace
Robert Naiman: “A sus ordenes, Pope Francis. Count me in.”
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For Economic Stability, Follow the French
The truth is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies actually helps economies and causes companies to hire more and more people, thus lowering unemployment.
In America, Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Not For Most People Who Are Stuck in Jail
The most common reason people are in jail is because they can't afford the fee.
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Talking Trash and Climate Crisis: A Conversation With Chicago’s Garbage Guru
An expert on all things garbage, Zelechowski spoke about the need to rethink the waste stream, the economic and environmental impacts of creative reuse, and how making trash visible …
Loathsome Wall Street Deficit Hysterics: “Blame the Old and Sick, Not Us” – Part 1
The austerity push by politicians, political operatives, and pundits of the last 5 years is the height of economic, political, and social perversity and stupidity.
Obama’s Not-So-Terrible Year
Though conventional wisdom says that President Barack Obama has suffered a terrible year in 2013, much of this analysis simply marches in lockstep with the neocon view of Obamau2019s …