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The Politics of Debt in America: From Debtor’s Prison to Debtor Nation
The double edged sword of debt can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your tax bracket.
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Timothy Geithner Saved Wall Street, Not the Economy
Bailouts might have saved big banks in 2008, but did not save workers from the fall out that followed.
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A Legacy of Occupy: Sticking It to Wall Street
The Occupy movement energized a vanguard of voters to become more populist in their demands.
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Welcome to the Real “Real America“
Paul Krugman: Gods, guns and gays didnu2019t swing voters into supporting corporate interests.
National Nurses: Message from Working People to Wall Street – America is Not for Sale
National Nurses United, the nationu2019s largest union and professional association of registered nurses sends a message to Obama to protect the medical rights of citizens across the nation.
Wall Street Urges Obama to Commit the Great Betrayal
Big banks continue to push Obama to adopt self-destructive austerity programs that would unravel the national safety net of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
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The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Hurricane Sandy Rides In
First, 9/11. Next, Katrina. Then Wall Street. Now, Sandy erases once and for all the line between man-made and natural disaster.
Education Profiteering: Wall Street’s Next Big Thing?
Wall Street's involvement in the charter school movement is presented as an act of philanthropy, but it's really about greed.
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
And the corporate media reporters covering the campaign are no help, either.
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Occupy Wall Street Prepares to Celebrate Where It All Began
This idea that everyone has to converge in [Washington] DC or wherever in order to have a protest is starting to wane away a little bit and people are …