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Time for Major Cuts in Defense Spending
It's time to act on Eisenhower's warning against the
Spain and Greece Are Being Forced to Suffer to Save Germany From High Inflation
There is an easier, more humane way to lessen Spain and Greece's trade and budget deficits.
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Flying Kites to the FCC Demanding Fair Phone Call Rates for Prisoners and Their Families
Phone companies charge as much as $15 for 15 minutes in some states and many of America's roughly 2.3 million inmates and their families cannot afford to stay in …
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The Job Crisis, the “Unemployable,” and the Fiscal Cliff
With November around the corner, millions of unemployed Americans are looking to the candidates to address job creation, but it seems that neither side truly has the people's interest …
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Ten Huge Issues Being Ignored in the Presidential Campaign
There's a number of critical concerns that get no attention, including some of the worst problems in the United States and the world.
Economists Identify the 100 Top Air Polluters and Highlight the Economics of Environmentalism
What do General Electric, Koch Industries, Bayer, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil all have in common? They all rank in the top ten of the Toxic 100.
A Tale of Two Chicagos: Teachers Protest Unequal System
In a system as segregated as Chicago Public Schools, where a quarter of a million students go to schools where 90 percent or more of their classmates are black …
Haitian Activist Tours US Demanding Housing Rights for the Country’s 400,000 Displaced
Housing activist Reyneld Sanon is beginning a tour in the US to raise awareness about Under Tents, the international campaign for housing rights in Haiti.
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More Than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty
In the words of Rep. Mike Honda (D-California), co-chair of the Congressional Out-of-Poverty Caucus, these figures are
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Detroit’s Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?