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Economy & Labor
Ten Years After Financial Crisis, Our Elites Have Learned Nothing
The housing bubble was also the story of the Great Recession.
Colorado Hemp Farmers Look to Bipartisan Effort by Congress to Fix Water Rights Problem
It's legal to grow industrial hemp in Colorado, but many farmers are breaking the law if they try to water their crops.
“A Better Deal” for American Workers? Not Without Unions
Noticeably absent from Democrats' deal is any mention of unions.
Republicans Consider Relaxing Constraints on Telecom Giants
This is a move to reclassify mobile internet access.
Is Foxconn a Fantasy? The High Cost of Bringing Manufacturing Jobs to Wisconsin
Who are the real winners of Foxconn's investment in Wisconsin?
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Lead to Massive Health Costs
The fossil fuel subsidies paid to the industry that exploits them is a fraction of their cost to people's health in the rich world.
How Welfare’s Work Requirements Can Deepen and Prolong Poverty
Losing welfare benefits when they're between jobs can plunge nursing home aides into extreme economic hardship.
London’s “Land Banking” Ventures Expose Startling Wealth Inequality
No place is feeling the bite of the UK housing crisis quite as savagely as London.
William Rivers Pitt | The GOP Wrecking Machine Takes Aim at the Debt Ceiling, Again
The song, as Led Zeppelin says, remains the same.
An Off-the-Record Genocide: Global Resource Extraction Economy Provides Incentives to Destroy DR Congo Indigenous Groups
Resource extraction interests and corrupt elites are incentivizing genocide of indigenous people in the Congo.