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Four Charts That Show Who Loses Out if the White House Cuts Food Stamps
The White House has proposed cutting 25 percent of SNAP's budget over the next decade.
What Is Behind the Renegotiation of NAFTA? Trumpism and the New Global Economy
Breaking down barriers to digital trade and labor regulations are the real reasons for Trump's NAFTA renegotiation.
It’s (Loan) Shark Week: Families Are Biting Back
It's “Shark Week,” but the most dangerous predators this year aren't on TV or at the beaches.
Democrats and Devos: Partners in the Illusion of School Choice?
The US has refused to realize the 1954 mandate of “Brown v. Board” to address deep-seated education inequity.
Citizens Begin Reclaiming Coal Country After Decades of Corporate Land Grabs
Figuring out who owns abandoned mines in Appalachia is harder than you'd think.
On Fighting Inequality, Which Nations Do More Than Pay Lip Service?
Two global groups have joined to create a yardstick for holding governments accountable for narrowing divides.
Financialization Has Turned the Global Economy Into a House of Cards: An Interview With Gerald Epstein
We not only must re-regulate finance, we must develop more public options in finance, says economist Gerald Epstein.
How the Student Loan Industry Is Helping Trump Destroy American Democracy
Student loan servicers are engaged in economic terrorism, and DeVos is only making it worse.
Building Resistance on Trump Island
In Staten Island, one union local is propelling a growing labor-community alliance deep in New Yorku2019s Republican recesses.
A Despot in Disguise: One Man’s Mission to Rip Up Democracy
James McGill Buchanan's vision of totalitarian capitalism has infected public policy in the US. Now it's being exported.