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Economy
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Tipping the Scales of Inequality
Stagnating wages for tipped workers is part of a bigger story of rising inequality in America.
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SAC Billionaire Steven Cohen Can’t Make His Mommy’s Monkey Jump
Is SAC Capital Advisors' mega-billionaire boss Steven A. Cohen a financial genius or a crook? You be the judge.
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A Renewed Discourse on Inequality
Corporate personhood and the civil and criminal protections it affords exacerbate inequality and destroy principles.
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The Day We Fight Back Against The NSA
The use of the Verizon building is significant because Verizon has been complicit with the NSA in spying on U.S citizens.
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What Will Reversing Inequality Really Take?
In the fierce debate over our top-heavy distribution of income and wealth, egalitarians have vanquished both inequality's deniers and defenders. Now the debate is shifting to the most pivotal …
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Olympics Venues Don’t Pay Off in Long Run
Might it be time to scale back the Olympics to a more reasonable level?
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Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination
In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power,” Max Haiven postulates the need to reclaim and reimagine the commons, to restore humanity and human …
Job Killer? How Media Spin Got Obamacare Wrong – and Why Single-Payer Could Cure Its Actual Flaws
Obamacare is a job killer u2014 that was the message across the media this week after the release of a new Congressional Budget Office report about the Affordable Care …
Three More States Seek to Curb Reckless Outsourcing of Public Services, Protect Taxpayers
CA, GA, OK introduce bills promoting accountability and transparency in deals to outsource public services to for-profit corporations.
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The Rise of “Insourcing” Gives Internet Companies a New Way to Exploit Workers
Services like Uber and Taskrabbit may offer convenience to their customers, but they don't provide essential protections to their workers.