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Corporate State
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Recognition, Representation, Redistribution: "A Precariat Charter" for Systemic Change
Guy Standing's new book provides a timely framework to analyze Europe's rightward populist shift while offering specific proposals to move us beyond our current socio-economic crises.
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Seattle Passes Historic $15 Minimum Wage Law, Highest In the Nation
The historic victory will benefit 100,000 working people in the city, and is expected to give momentum to minimum wage campaigns burgeoning across the U.S.
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UN: Austerity Is Crippling Planet With One-Quarter of Europe Now In Poverty
The International Labor Organization says government austerity cuts driven by the financial crisis have especially hit the world's poorest, making basic services unattainable.
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Outrageous Decline in British Healthcare A Result of Cuts and Privatization
How fiscally responsible is it for the government to subsidize big banks with taxpayer money while insisting it has to make billions in cuts to the National Health Service?
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Corporations Are Not People. Period.
80% of the American public believes corporations should not have the same rights as people. Yet our community is one of thousands that has been slapped down in the name of “corporate personhood.”
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CEO's Made 331 Times As Much as Their Workers Last Year
In 2013, CEOs of S&P 500 companies made 331 times as much as their employees.
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Will New Federal Law Lead to Privatization of U.S. City Water Systems?
Much of America’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs attention, but critics worry that a new funding bill could be a pipeline to government-subsidized privatization.
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When Fat Cats Meet In Munich: Welcoming the International Monetary Conference
This last installment in a series looks at what the IMC has done, ahead of this weekend's conference, to maintain power among the world's most influential bodies controlling economic, financial and monetary affairs.
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Failing to Rein in Spending, IRS Delays New Rules for Dark Money Groups
The agency has postponed rules to impose new spending limits by social welfare nonprofits, which have poured money into politics since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010.
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Inequality and Poverty Causing Shocking Number of Child Deaths in Great Britain
Child health experts in the U.K. are now warning that social and economic inequalities have become a matter of life or death.
