Truthout
Economy

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The People Bail Out the People
In canceling the debt, the Strike Debt team is taking advantage of a fairly common banking practice.

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Independent Publisher Chelsea Green Flourishing as Employee-Owned Company
Publisher of books on sustainability walks the walk, turns ownership over to its workers.

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The Missing Living Wage Agenda
There is a 30-year backlog of policies to fix the extreme maldistribution of wages and opportunity in the labor market.

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Party of Entitled Rich Threatens Economy
Eighty CEOs have ponied up $37 million to make sure the so-called fiscal cliff problem is resolved their way.

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Americans Want Leadership Now on Real Cliffs: Jobs and Human Survival
We need to drop the ‘fiscal cliff’ politicking and tell the truth about our poor economy and climate change.

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Want to Help Small Businesses? Bring on Taxmageddon
Small Business Majority sees silver lining in letting tax cuts expire.

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Will the Democrats Tax the Rich to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff?
Although Obama has vowed to stay firm over taxing the rich (this time), his toughness is only skin deep, and comes with dangerous strings attached.

Black Report: Craziness on Three Continents
Bill Black: Banks try to start a run on the banks in Ecuador.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This Is What Corporate Governance Looks Like
secrecy is necessary in order to make the agreement as undemocratic and unaccountable as possible, to ensure that corporations get what they want while the public remains in the …

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Beleaguered Europe, Back in the Spotlight
Paul Krugman: Unemployment is rising fast, and at some point the strain will just be too much to take.