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Economy & Labor
Henry Giroux: Liberty and Justice for All?
Scholar Henry Giroux says that America is slipping away, and being replaced with a surveillance state and culture of violence that's threatening the very core of American democracy.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: the Banksters Who Caused the Economy to Crash Are Raking in Record Profits, and More
The bankers who caused the economic crisis are raking in profits, and more.
TPP’s Threat to Buy American Act Adds More Congressional Opposition
283 House members oppose giving away Congressional role in approving Trans-Pacific Partnership over buy American threats, market access concerns and fast track opposition.
Deconstructing Fed Vice Chair’s Grim Economic Forecast
PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein discusses how Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer has ignored real solutions to improve the economy, like increasing wages.
Economic Update: Markets and Immigration
Updates on the drop in most Americans' household wealth and how Social Security finances are more about wages than aging.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Drinking Water Polluted for Thousands of Ohians and Canadians, and More
A farmer decides to use an abandoned prison to grow pot, and more.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Walgreens Will Not Move Overseas to Avoid Taxes, and More
Walgreens has caved to public pressure and announced that they will not move overseas to avoid paying US taxes, and more.
We Won’t Forget Wisconsin
A new film called Wisconsin Rising is screening around the country, the subject, of course, being the activism surrounding the mass occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011.
Economic Update: From Bad Loans to Taxing the Property of the Wealthy
Updates on the Pentagon's overpayments; mortgages tilting toward the rich; the subprime car loan bubble; and silence about intangible property tax.
The Consequences of Reagan Breaking the 1981 Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Professor Joseph McCartin and former PATCO spokesperson Elliot Simons discuss the anniversary of the firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers and why it matters today.