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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act, and More
It's anyone's guess as to whether the Affordable Care Act will survive its latest challenge.
Escaping Economic Orthodoxy in Latin America
An interview with Ha-Joon Chang on the region's alternatives to the Washington Consensus.
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February’s Strongest Wage Growth in Lowest Paying Sectors
Job growth remains strong in February.
Economic Update: Economic Decline and Growing Resistance
This episode provides updates on taxis vs. Uber vs. driver co-ops, an apology on Detroit, and more.
What Trickle-Down Economics Has Done to the US: The Rich Get All the Money
Wealth is being redistributed in the US from the poor and the middle class to the rich.
When Capitalism Becomes an Act of War
Inside the trauma of globalization.
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Wrong-Way Obama?
He may be leading us toward economic catastrophe.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Students Are Taking On College Debt, and More
In today's On the News segment: If corporations paid back their full debt to society, they'd be paying each of our households about $10,000 a year; it appears another discriminatory …
Austerity Seen as Culprit in Sharp Rise in Suicide Rate Among Middle-Aged People
For all too many middle to upper-middle income workers in the US, when you fall off the corporate meal ticket, the fall is far indeed.
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The Federal Reserve Board’s Plan to Kill Jobs
The Fed's plans to raise interest rates are rarely spoken of as hurting employment, but job-killing is really at the center of the story.