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How a Shadow Drug Industry Tries to Avoid Regulation
Big pharma attempts to avoid regulations in order to cover their tracks.
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A Hard Day’s Labor for $4.76: The Offshore Assembly Industry in Haiti
As we mourn the deaths of the Bangladesh factory collapse, we explore the implications of sweatshop labor as a model for development.
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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.
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Billions Proposed for New Border Security. Where Would the Money Go?
Federal spending on border security is at an all-time high, and it would get even higher under the Gang of Eight's new plan.
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Strike and You’re Out: The Supreme Court’s Destruction of the Right to Strike
In their continuing series on the National Labor Relations Act, two legal experts explain how the Supreme Court nullified the NLRA-enshrined right to strike by inventing an employer's right …
Senate Immigration Bill: More Militarization of the Border, No Real Path to Citizenship
Immigration attorney Isabel Garcia: New legislation will increase deportations, beef up police while worker status will help provide cheap labor for businesses but make citizenship almost impossible to attain.
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Vieques Vive La Lucha Continua 10 Years After the Bombing Stopped
Ten years ago May 1, the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico and their supporters from around the world defeated the most powerful military machine ever, through mass civil disobedience …
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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.
Truthout TV Interviews Ellen Dannin and Ann Hodges About the Attack Against the National Labor Relations Act
Workers' rights have eroded over the past 30 years, while the rights of corporations have increased.