Corporate State

Green New Deal, Part V: We Must Break the Corporate Bailout 'Logic' to Tackle Covid-19 and Climate

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Britain's Covid-19 Economic Recovery: Looking Beyond Austerity and Johnson’s ‘Big Gesture’ Politics

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How the Pandemic Exposed Faultlines In Capitalism and Failures of Gig Economy

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Capitalism’s “Dirty Little Secret”: The Threat of Rising Debt During Coronavirus

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Corporations Will Not Save Us: The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility

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From Virgin to Tesco, Large UK Companies Accused of Trading Employee Health for Profit

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COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals Devastating Impacts of Tory Austerity on N.H.S.

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General Electric Won't Pay Taxes – While Its CEO Blows $343,000 on Travel Expenses

The resurgence of elite travel perks signals that the decline of corporate jet spending following the financial crisis was just a brief moment of public shaming – and not a lasting shift in corporate culture.

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It's Time to Expose Global Banking Elites at the International Monetary Conference

This four-part Global Power Project series takes on the secretive meeting of global financiers happening in June at the International Monetary Conference in Munich.

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Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage: Highest In the United States

Seattle will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years under a deal brokered by the mayor and blessed by labor and business groups alike.

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Vermont Calls for Constitutional Convention to Get Money Out of Politics

On Friday, Vermont became the first state to call for a convention to amend the Constitution to reverse the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

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Almost Half Of New Yorkers Are Poor

Nearly half of New Yorkers were making less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold.

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Can Rock-Star Economist Thomas Piketty Re-Write the American Dream?

The unlikely bestseller has roiled pundits and crystallized a conversation about inequality we should have had long ago. Now he has to win over normal people.

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In Google's Inequality Valley, Women Are Paid Shockingly Less than Men

There's a growing male hegemony in "Inequality Valley."

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Revealed: Federal Judges Guilty of Owning Stock in Corporations They Ruled On

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James Hill owned as much as $100,000 in Johnson & Johnson stock when he and two other judges ruled against the Gables family's appeal in a precedent-setting case.

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