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When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Trend That’s Sweeping America
Wage theft is fast becoming a top trend of the 21st-century labor market.
How the Prison-Industrial Complex Destroys Lives
Truthout interviews Marc Mauer, author of
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Exploding the Debt Threshold Myth
Austerity, it turns out, only works if you don't know how to use an Excel spreadsheet.
Is the Press Too Big to Fail?
Who is going to bring us the news of all the institutions, from City Hall to Congress, from Wall Street to the White House, that fail us?
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Budget Shocker: Los Angeles Shows $119 Million Surplus
The reasons for Los Angeles' comparatively good financial condition include a legal groundwork laid years ago that required specific funding safeguards, recent give-backs from public sector unions and an …
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Just Say No to Multinationals? For Rural Communities, It’s Not Always That Simple
Nestle is proposing to gain access to the spring via a water exchange with Cascade Locks.
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Europe’s Leaders Disregard Anti-Austerity Logic
Paul Krugman: How is it possible that European austerians are unaware of the argument of their critics?
Airport Privatization Takes Off in Puerto Rico
Under fiscal stress and the influence of a powerful business lobby, airports are being sold off to private investors.
Economic Update: Tax Truths
Updates in this segment include Europeans limiting CEO pay, Chileans demonstrating for free education and the many countries with higher tax rates for the rich than in US.
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Serious Threat to Asian Economic Model
Some Western countries have been trying to curb or even eventually eliminate the Asian model of state-owned or state-aided capitalism.