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Chicago Teachers Launch Strike for Better Pay, Benefits and Work Conditions
The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.
Do America’s Corporations Care How Much American Workers Earn?
Despite worries about sagging consumer confidence and shrinking paychecks, business leaders seem unconcerned about the declining standard of living of middle-class America, or about the growing number of American …
Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Weighs in on the Organic Food Debate
Stein addresses a recent Stanford study which found that organic foods aren't any more nutritious than conventional foods.
Europe’s Adjustment: The Misadventures of Austerity
Austerity to reduce spending and decrease the need for imports, and liberalization reforms to reduce real wages and promote internal devaluation have been going on for a while in …
European Debt Dominos
So, as everyone knows, the ECB came out yesterday with its latest plan to stem the creeping European sovereign debt crisis.
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Strike Is the Best Lesson Chicago Teachers Union Could Have Planned
Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.
Effectuating Our National Labor Policy
Two pending National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases on graduate student workers provide an opportunity to develop effective strategies to respond to attacks on employee rights under National Labor …
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Globalized Growth Is the Problem, Localism Is the Solution
This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems …
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Leaving the GOP and Joining the Reality-Based Community: How I Learned to Stop Loving the Bombs
This is the story of how in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and later in Iraq, I discovered that what I believed to be the full spectrum of reality …
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Farewell to Bill
Clinton's political skills shouldn't prevent us from understanding the track record of his economic policies.