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Economic Update: Worker Enterprises in Bolivia, New Party in Spain
Richard D. Wolff gives updates on big banks' misdeeds, inadequate health care, the social costs of low wages and Nobel prizes in economics.
The “Merchant of Death” Lobby
The U.S. gun industry doesnu2019t want any restrictions on its profit-making role as a global u201cmerchant of death,u201d so its lobby has whipped half the Senate into line opposing …
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Thousands Rally to “Take Back Chicago”
At a massive rally to “Take Back Chicago,” thousands of Chicagoans backed an agenda for economic justice — and a challenge to the policies of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Members …
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For Transgender Patients, a Growing Fight Over Health Coverage
Trans Americans living in the grey area of bureaucracy are unable to get the coverage they need as healthcare coverage shifts across the country.
Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Heavy rains have overwhelmed containment tankers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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Community Development and Community Engagement in Southwest Detroit
While a new line of development projects in Detroit could mean business opportunities for residents, hese opportunities for participation could just as easily evaporate and the subsequent development in …
Corporations Reap Billions From Mass Incarceration
A new campaign exposes the companies that profit off prisoners.
JP Morgan Pays $13 Billion in Historic Settlement
Taxpayers might be on the hook for 35 percent of JP Morgan's settlement cost.
Michelle Rhee’s Empty Harvest
The spectacular rise and fall of Michelle Rhee, known as u201cAmericau2019s most famous school reformer,
The Coming Grand Bargain: “We’re All Neoliberals Now“
Neoliberal shock doctrine has once again pushed this country further to the right, and it is the American people who will suffer for it.