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Walmart Workers Will Make History on Friday As America Confronts Growing Inequality
This year, the day after Thanksgiving will be remembered as the day Americans took action to demand that Walmart pay workers livable wages.
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“They Call Us Illegal”: Fast-Food Workers Face Silent Raids
Is it a crime to work? Or is it a crime to pay workers less than S8.50 an hour for grueling work and short their wages or fire them …
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Violence Against Demonstrators Follows Contested Result in Honduras Elections
Students protesting what they claim are fraudulent election results in Honduras' presidential elections were met by police violence on Tuesday. Observers document voting irregularities.
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Tilting at Gas Wells: What’s the Best Way to Defend Your Community From Fracking?
The most effective fracking bans may be the ones that make the fewest rights claims.
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Why Health Care Isn’t Just About Insurance
As Epilepsy Awareness Month winds down, let's take on the class-based obstacles to seizure management.
“Hannah Arendt” Revisits Fiery Debate Over German-Jewish Theorist’s Coverage of Eichmann Trial
As head of the Gestapo office for Jewish affairs, Adolf Eichmann organized transport systems which resulted in the deportation of millions of Jews to extermination camps across Nazi-occupied Eastern …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: ALEC Wants to Kill Obamacare, and More
The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing new legislation to prevent insurance companies from accepting subsidies under the healthcare law, and more.
The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme – Again
Wall Street has devised a new way to profit off the housing market - and this time it has nothing to do with risky mortgages.
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Germany’s Policies Become an Economic Anchor
The Germans are outraged, outraged at the United States Treasury Department, whose “Semiannual Report On International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies” says some negative things about how German macroeconomic …
Henry Giroux on the “School to Prison Pipeline”
Education expert Henry Giroux tells Bill public schools are suffering from an overemphasis on academic testing as teachers are stripped of their powers, in schools with disciplinary systems that …