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Economic Update: The Death of the Middle Class
Updates on polls showing most Americans want less inequality; why Tea Party types fixate on government debt; why French right-wing and other far-right parties gain support; and more.
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Time to End the Cheney/Halliburton Loophole
Thanks to Dick Cheney's Halliburton loophole, anyone who lives near a fracking site is one of the oil industry's guinea pigs in a giant multi-decade fracking experiment.
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Food Fights, Corporate Trade Agreements, and States’ Rights: Democracy or Corporatocracy?
Perhaps the largest and most dynamic grassroots movement in North America today is the anti-genetic engineering, Millions Against Monsanto food movement.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Want To Hold Our Economy Hostage Again, and More
Republicans want to hold our economy hostage again, but they may not get the chance to do so, and more.
What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Can Teach Us About Climate Change (Really)
For the State Department to suggest that the Keystone XL pipeline will not have a negative impact on the environment is like Walter White telling Phillip Seymour Hoffman that …
The Good Jobs News on the Affordable Care Act
Dean Baker: The ACA is freeing people from health care related job-lock. This is a feature, not a bug.
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Close the “Water’s Edge” Loophole
Working-class Americans shouldn't have to face the burden of corporate tax loopholes that are letting corporations off the hook. Let's bring those offshore trillions back home, and start rebuilding …
McConnell Supports Deficit Spending on Big Corporate Tax Breaks While Opposing Emergency Spending for Unemployment Benefits Unless Paid For
The package of tax breaks that McConnell supports expire every year or two and are routinely renewed with little debate by Congress despite their huge costs.
Dark Money and the US Chamber of Commerce: Majority of Donations Given by Just 64 Entities
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is swimming in large donations from the top 1 percent.
AOL’s CEO Is Not the Only One Who Should Be Shamed
Laura Flanders: Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it's Obamacare that's serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their workers.