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The Key to the Youth Vote: Birth Control and the 2012 Election
Birth control access is a force multiplier for young people.
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Bush Tax Cuts Have Delivered $1 Million in Tax Breaks to the Average Millionaire
The Bush tax cuts delivered the weakest job growth of the post-war period.
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The Rich: Once We “Clawed Back” Them All
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a
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Six Things You Should Know About the $21 Trillion the World’s Richest People Are Hiding in Tax Shelters
A new report from the Tax Justice Network found trillions of untaxed wealth that the world's richest people are hiding.
Spain Is Being Asked to Adopt Socially Burdensome and Economically Ineffective Measures
Spainu2019s problem is a general European problem. In 2010, it was running a high public deficit: at 9.3% of GDP, theyu2019re being asked to undertake the challenging task of …
Robert Pollin: Full Employment Is Possible!
The last time the US saw relatively full employment wasnu2019t in ancient history. It was at the end of the 1990s. We can do it. Pollin lays out how.
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A Wall Street Devil Gets Religion … and an Apt Epitaph
Hallelujah and Holy Smokes! Wall Street has had a
LIBOR – Insider Trading on a Massive Scale
Stephany Griffith-Jones: Major banks fixed interest rates to make short term profits and look stronger than they were.
A Democratic Country Should Put Public Education Before Corporate Profits
Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting like crazy and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has released a report warning about the looming …
Bill Moyers: Veteran Karl Marlantes on What It’s Like to Go to War
Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes shares how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him.