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Saving the Post Office: Letter Carriers Consider Bringing Back Banking Services
The USPS has evidently been targeted by a plutocratic Congress bent on destroying the most powerful unions and privatizing all public services.
Economic Update: “The Public’s Health and Economics”
Updates on extremes in Spain's crisis, Paul Ryan as VP candidate, US Justice Dept drops case against Goldman-Sachs, college costs crisis, and fast-rising food prices. Interview with Prof. Carles …
How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse
The entire American food system is built on one crop — corn. And that is really bad news.
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Three Thousand San Francisco Janitors Prepare for a Strike
At issue in San Francisco is the same sticking point in most union contract negotiations - health care costs and wages.
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Time to Rebel! Five Ways We Can Break the Big Banks’ Death Grip on the Economy
Wall Streetu2019s incredible greed and arrogance may have finally handed us the tools and leverage we need.
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Why Afghanistan Can’t Wait
Real strength asserts itself - in small work, repeated a thousand fold, by people like the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
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A Critical Mass for Real Food
While the old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, there's a new way of thinking, and it's taking off.
Congress Discovers: For-Profit Colleges Put Profits First
In December of last year, ranking House Member Elijah Cummings initiated an investigation of executive pay at for-profit educational institutions.
The Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in the Private Sector
The reelection of Governor Scott Walker merely confirmed what trade unionists should already understandu2014laboru2019s current strategies have little chance of success. In the post election soul-searching, labor analysts have …