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Housing
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Gimme Shelter
Howard Mansfield's "Dwelling in Possibility"' suggests that how we construct our dwellings makes a cosmic difference in the quality of our personal and communal lives.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Living Close to Nature Improves Our Mental Health, and More
Studies like these prove that our natural environment should be protected as the valuable resource it really is.
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How Eviction Resisters Are Using Stand-Your-Ground Laws To Challenge Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae evicted Mark Harris from his Atlanta home; now he and Occupy Our Homes Atlanta will argue that the eviction was unlawful.
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The Public-Private Profiteers
Health care isn't the first boon that President Obama tried to give us through a public-private partnership.
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The Attack of the Robots: Economists’ Silly Fantasies
Dean Baker: “If we adjust patent laws to better serve the economy we can ensure that robots and other technological breakthroughs make most of the world richer not poorer.”
Questions About the Haitian Reconstruction’s Housing Projects
A government housing project in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti raises many questions.
Frigid “Polar Vortex” Puts Homeless in Extreme Danger
Adam Schneider: Cities have taken action to house their homeless populations in face of record cold temperatures but fail to prevent and end homelessness.
Home, Sweet (Privatized Military) Home
The goals of faster and cheaper military housing may have been achieved through privatization, but problems including unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems including mold has …
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Imagine: If Mayor de Blasio Really Were a Socialist
Conner and Smith propose health care, housing and education for all in a real socialist agenda for a real socialist mayor of New York City.
Occupy Offshoot Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis
A spinoff of Occupy Wall Street called The Other 98 Percent has launched a petition calling on employees of Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank …