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Robert Pollin: Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget Strikes Back Against Austerity
The Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget would increase spending on education, healthcare and the green economy while rolling back cuts against social services.
Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis on Fighting for Fairness
Economic equality advocates Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis discuss with Bill how social action can change both policy and lives.
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Banks Seek To Sway Critical GAO Report
Biggest banks argue size doesn't mean they have advantage.
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Fat Cats and Suck-Ups
If the Democrats are wondering why their electoral chances in the mid-terms are looking so dismal, they should look no further than the progressive wing of their own increasingly …
Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Would Deepen Income Divide
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements will worsen America's glaring economic fault lines.
Tony Benn Saw Socialism as the Culmination of Democratization
Leo Panitch on the death of Tony Benn: He conceived the need to democratize the state as the precondition for democratizing the economy.
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High-Cost Lender World Finance Target of Federal Probe
The investigation follows a ProPublica story that detailed the company's lending practices.
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The Rigged Housing Market
“There's no place like home” is supposed to be a figure of speech or a memorable line in a corny song. Instead it's just a fact of life for …
Vermont Bus Drivers Strike Over Dangerous Conditions
Municipal bus drivers in northern Vermont are striking today against unsafe conditions, surveillance and discipline, and part-time status, in a show of union solidarity that could prove a powerful …
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Billionaires… First They Came for the Economy
It's time to end America's oligonomy by rolling back the Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act, so that corporations can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles …