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Infographic: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools
Whereu2019s the big money in privatization? Take it from the teachers.
Heathens of Wall Street
This song draws attention to many of the issues we must address today.
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.
Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-Control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree
Today,central banks are on a global corporate buying spree not to bail out bankrupt corporations but simply as an investment.
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Drowning in Profits: A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence and the Price of a Child’s Death
The most controversial development in America's housing
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Dean Baker | The Sharing Economy and the Mystery of the Mystery of Inequality
In a country where rules are enforced or not enforced to benefit the rich and screw the middle class, you will have increasing inequality and a middle class that …
Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives
Municipal and state governments as well as NGOs that support small or independent businesses are finally beginning to address what changes they need to make to support the creation …
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 …
United Methodists Divest from Company Involved in Israeli Occupation
Amid concerns raised by church justice advocates, United Methodist Church Pensions sells all stocks in G4S.
That Much Petroleum is That Much Bullshit: China Won the Oil War, and the Shale Oil Revolution is About to Shrivel Up
Wall Street is the government, and the New York Times is right across town. Maybe that's all you need to know to understand what's happened.