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Economy & Labor
Think Tanks as Lobbyists: US Groups Receive Millions to Push Foreign Nations’ Agendas
An expose reveals more than a dozen prominent Washington research groups have received tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments in recent years while pushing US government officials.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fast-Food Workers in More Than 150 Cities Go on Strike, and More
In today's On the News segment: Fast-food workers in more than 150 cities go on strike, and more.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: California Is Suffering an Extreme Drought, and More
In today's On the News segment: California is still suffering with an extreme drought, and more.
Helicopters Over the Hamptons: It’s The Rich vs. the Super Rich
A battle is brewing in The Hamptons, where the wealthy and the super wealthy square off against one another over traffic.
Economic Update: Big Changes Coming
This episode covers food insecurity, oil disaster economics, politicos going to Wall Street, billionaires buying homes, education in the UK and how the US sustains elites.
David Cay Johnston on the Pillaging of the Public Treasury
David Cay Johnston says to ordinary Americans: "You elected these people, you chose these people who are destroying your families, destroying your life, who are making the lives of …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Importance of Labor Unions and Meaning Behind Labor Day, and More
Celebrating Labor Day should mean commemorating the key role unions played in winning benefits we take for granted now; and more.
Labor Day Reality for Humanity on the Gallows – or Shall We Imagine Differently?
The US holiday Labor Day is a joke. Again there will be no visible strikes and no muscle-flexing by the labor movement.
Global Warming and Economic Crisis Lead to One Solution: Climate Jobs
May Boeve from 350.org and Bruce Hamilton of the Amalgamated Transit Union discuss how the environmental and labor movements have united to organize the People's Climate Summit in New …
Heralding a National Trend? Enrollment Surges as New York City Begins Full-Day Prekindergarten for 50,000 Kids
As the school year begins, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is launching his signature initiative of full-day universal prekindergarten at public schools.