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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IMF Calls Lawmakers to Raise the Minimum Wage, and More
Senate Republicans are simply repackaging old ideas and trying to pass them off as pro-worker, and more.

Follow the Money: How Finance Keeps the Whip Hand
While the NSA argues that the biggest risk of terrorism is the possibility of a hack attack on our banking system by unspecified assailants, the mortal danger facing the …

Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid: What Makes Revolutionaries Irresistible?
In honor of Pride month, Flanders talks to political humorist Kate Clinton and author and activist Urvashi Vaid about the LGBT movement, feminism, humor, and irresistible revolutions and revolutionaries.

Argentina Responds to Supreme Court with Debt Swap Plan
In reaction to an adverse Supreme Court ruling against Argentina, President Cristina Fernu00e1ndez de Kirchner announced that Argentina would offer new bonds to its creditors governed under Argentine law.

New Report: US Government Top Funder of Low-Wage Jobs for Women
As President Obama prepares to speak to the needs of working women during the White House Summit on Working Families, a new report from public policy organization Demos highlights …

Unions Boost Women’s Earnings, Benefits, and Workplace Flexibility
Over the past four decades, women have played increasingly important roles as breadwinners in their families. At the same time, women's share of unpaid care work and housework has …

The World Cup and “Brazil’s Dance With the Devil”
Just a year ago, there were mass protests in Brazil - on one day alone, more than a million demonstrators hit the streets - speaking out against the billions …

Economic Update: Economic Codependency
Major discussions of a new book on China-US codependency and how and why our economic system works and breaks down.

Bill Moyers: Too Big to Fail and Getting Bigger
In Washington, DC, a bipartisan effort is underway to chip away at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is supposed to prevent the type of economic meltdown that …

ISIS Born From Occupation of Iraq, Not Syrian Civil War
Vijay Prashad: Although it's not clear where the Saudis stand in relation to ISIS, the group itself is a product of the Iraq War, and Western diplomats were in …