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On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Half-Million Eligible Voters Will Find It Virtually Impossible to Get the Necessary ID to Be Able to Vote in November, and More
A new study by the Brennan Center for Justice reveals just how damaging Republican-backed Voter Suppression ID laws will be to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Why Iceland Is a Success Story
Paul Krugman: Weu2019re talking about two economies that suffered severe, Depression-level slumps, and have since made up some but not all of the lost ground. You could, by the …
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The Problem Isn’t Outsourcing. It’s that the Prosperity of Big Business Has Become Disconnected From the Well-Being of Most Americans
The American economy has moved way beyond outsourcing abroad or even u201cin-sourcing.u201d Most big companies headquartered in America donu2019t send jobs overseas and donu2019t bring jobs here from abroad.
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The True Costs of Mass Incarceration
Alabama lawyer Bryan Stevenson speaks about issues of age and race in our justice system.
Total System Change: A Real-Life Look at Regional Governance and Public Ownership
Institutional change, from co-ops to land trusts, and including municipal enterprise and state investing, challenge dominant corporate ideologies and help clear a path for new approaches to meaningful, larger-scale …
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Military Industry Descends on Capitol Hill to Fight for Their Perceived Right to Profit
You know itu2019s a big moment for defenders of the United Statesu2019 bloated military budget when some of the all-time superstars of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex descend on Capitol Hill …
So DID Mitt Romney Really “Create Jobs” at Staples?
Did Mitt Romney really "create 100,000 jobs" with Staples? Simple answer: only if no one else was selling office supplies, stationery, etc. before Staples came along. What Staples did …
Election Countdown 2012: The Head of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources Sees Global Warming as a Good Thing, and More
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservationu2019s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure in an agency that has promoted hydraulic fracturing as a …
Bill Moyers | Financial Expert Sheila Bair on Keeping Banks Honest
Sheila Bair: I worry that the public is getting cynical about if the regulators in Washington can fix any of this.
Interest Rate-Fixing Scandal Swindles Baltimore, Other Municipalities out of Millions of Dollars
Amidst the financial crisis of 2008 and resultant recession, cities and states around the country lost millions of dollars on investments tied to the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).