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Economy
Behind the Lobbying Effort that Helps Save Apple $2.4 Billion in Taxes a Year
The New York Times dropped another bomb on Apple’s “iEconomy” this weekend with an expose that shows how the world’s biggest corporation evades billions of dollars in taxes by …
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AT&T, Feds Neglect Low-Price Mandate Designed to Help Schools
At the dawn of the Internet era, Congress set out to avert a digital divide between rich and poor students. In a landmark bill, lawmakers required the nation’s phone …
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The Tinder-Box Society
Public anger and frustration can ignite in two very different ways. One is toward reforms that more broadly share the productivity gains. The other is toward demagogues that turn …
The Current Business Paradigm Is Toxic to Business and Society. Here’s How We Change It
Business being the most pragmatic of all social organizational forms, it historically has focused narrowly on its economic activity without being distracted by the demands of political affiliations, societal …
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Across New York City, People Honor May Day
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a march in New York, May 1, 2012. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times)Walter Hillegas marches with a scale-model …
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Affordable Housing Wobbles as Redevelopment Agencies Close
Affordable housing advocates across California are scrambling for alternative sources of funding following the closure of the state’s redevelopment agencies last February.A state law upheld by the California Supreme …
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Labor Not Loyalty on May 1
Two key steps have helped to ruin May Day in the United States. First, Labor Day was created at a completely different time of year — labor day without …
Bankers Assault Financial Reform
Guest: Gerald Epstein is codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Professor of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He has published widely …
May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests: “No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere”
As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal …
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty and Freaky Weather Into the Arena
When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s — which …