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Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform
This punitive approach to poverty has driven poor mothers of color further to the margins of the economy, making them even more politically invisible.
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Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election
Defending their new privilege of secret corporate electioneering, trade associations have bitterly opposed any attempts, postu2013Citizens United, at reform.
Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height
Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten u201cstimulus packagesu201d of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped …
How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted
Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
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Economic Crisis Encouraging Factory Takeovers in Spain
At least 40 struggling companies have been converted into cooperatives with workers assuming management.
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Election Countdown 2012: Protesters Gather in Charlotte for the Convention, and More
This week in the Election Countdown protesters are gathering in Charlotte;National media focus on but largely misunderstand what's happening in New Orleans; The fatal shootings of two apparently emotionally …
Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food
We are throwing away away up to 40% of our food, the research finds.
Striking South African Miners Charged with Murder After Police Kill 34
Major challenge to ANC government after reports that many miners were shot in the back, and now murder charges against other miners, no police charged.
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Ryan at the Trough
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Romney/Ryan Plan
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