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Failure to Focus on Labor Rights Hurts Dems
Democrats shouldn't downplay labor and collective bargaining issues.
Unemployment Rate Edges Up to 8.2 Percent
Revisions of March and April numbers show much slower pace of job creation than originally reported. The economy added 69,000 jobs in May—short of the 90,000 jobs needed to …
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A Diabolical Mix: US Wages and European Austerity
"What if Europe and the US converged on a set of economic policies that brought out the worst in both u2013 European fiscal austerity combined with a declining share …
The Stakes in the Walker Recall
Recalls and impeachments are a remedy of last resort. Most of the time, voters who don't like an incumbent choose to live with the offending politician until the next …
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time to Go All-in on Money-out
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the …
Who Is Behind the Conspiracy Against Climate Change Science?
The confusion seems to have been the intention of the denialists all along - not to disprove climate change (the evidence is too strong for that) but to cast …
The Leveson Inquiry – Oh, What a Lovely Game
John Pilger describes how the Leveson public inquiry in the British press, set up following the Murdoch phone-hacking revelations, exemplifies the
How America’s Largest Private Prison Operator Plans to Beat Corporate Income Tax
If CCA chooses to convert itself into an REIT, then it will effectively be able to
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Chicago Factory Occupiers Form Worker Cooperative
The group of workers who occupied their Chicago factory in 2008 and again in 2012 incorporated a worker-run cooperative on May 30, 2012.
Head of Catholic Bishops Paid Pedophiles to Disappear
Archdiocese of Minneapolis admitted that, during Dolan's tenure, pedophiles were paid to simply disappear.