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How Can We Reclaim the Holiday Season From Corporations?
Americans spend more than $20 billion a year on toys for kids - with most of that green leaving their pockets between now and the end of December.
Public Citizen Sues Online Retailer That Damaged Utah Customer’s Credit in Retaliation for Critical Online Review
Customer refused KlearGear.com's demand for $3,500 over web posting.
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The Airfare Mystery
Beneath the surface (on travel web sites), it turns out that a large part of the price difference between these two routes is not the actual payment to the …
Temporary Work, Lasting Harm
When Davis walked into the factory, he joined one of the fastest-growing and more dangerous segments of the US labor market: blue-collar temp work.
Ralph Nader: McCarthyism Made Us Veer Away From a Systemic Doctrine for Change
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Ralph Nader says McCarthy's reign of terror made people seek more empirical change, we went after auto companies - no “ism” there.
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Corporate Education Reform Won’t Solve the Problems Caused by Poverty
Arne Duncan's latest gaffe highlights the critical inequities of federal education “reforms.” Reversing these trends will require policymakers to acknowledge that education alone cannot create perfect equity of opportunity.
One Hundred KIPP Fifth Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They “Earned” Their Desks
KIPP spends a great deal of money promoting its brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled …
From “Old Detroit” to Delta City: Robocop’s Dystopia in Detroit
Only a genuinely radical response from the public will be able to counteract the selling of Detroit.
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Thom Hartmann | Are Economic Royalists Leading the US Over a Precipice?
Was the near meltdown of our economy at the end of the Bush administration just a prelude to a more crushing collapse? Thom Hartmann says yes! Read an excerpt …
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When Outsourcing Public Services to Private Companies Goes Wrong
A Virginia carpooling contract is one example of failures that can arise when cash-strapped governments outsource public services to private companies that put profit before the public interest.