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Economy
Economic Update: Inconvenient Economic Truths
Updates on unpaid law clerks, Buffett's minimum tax on high incomes, and CBO report on medical care costs and federal deficits.
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Collective Workplaces Spell Job Security, Fair Treatment and Real-Life Democracy
Richard Wolff argues that workers in control of their own workplaces are much less likely to ship their own jobs overseas, underpay employees or pollute their own communities.
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Climate Silence, Nuclear Silence and Solar Silence: An Unholy Trinity
Unholy Trinity of silence on climate, nuclear power and alternative possibilities is deafening.
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Entitlements Are Fundamental Human Rights, Not Political Poker Chips to Be Bargained Away
The basic necessities of life are not for government to give or withhold based on its current budget situation.
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The Fiscal Cliff
The Fiscal Cliff.
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Welcome Back to the Dark Ages
How are you going to have effective science education if schools have to give equal time to the views of fundamentalist Christians?
Washington’s Serious People Are on the War Path Against Middle-Income and Poor People
DC's so-called leaders want us to believe that redistributing income from the 99 percent to them and their friends is what the market demands.
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Why It’s Hard to Replace the “Fiscal Cliff” Metaphor
The brain's neural circuitry makes the conceptual metaphor of the so-called fiscal cliff endure.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What “Free Trade” Actually Means
But while public opinion may oppose the TPP in principle, the bigger problem is that the public does not know the TPP even exists.
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In the US, an Insecure Economy Needs a Stronger Safety Net
Staff at the Boeing factory in Everett, Washington, working on the company’s new 787 Dreamliner jets earlier this year. (Photo: Stuart Isett / The New York Times)Looking at The …