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Corporate State
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Too Rigged to Fail: The Homeowner Hampster Wheel of Mortgage Fraud
If the government won’t break up the banks, then we the people need to break up with the banks. The only way they will feel our pain is if people move their money out of them – then demand accountability and jail time for the elite financial criminals.
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Pay Gap Persists Even As Women Take Over Male-Dominated Fields
Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling? It may come down to this troubling reality, new research suggests: Work done by women simply isn’t valued as highly.
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Kill the Housing Bill: A New Battle Over Rent Heats Up On Britain’s Streets
The "Pay to Stay" system would make social housing tenants pay the same in rent as those living in privately-owned property – a change protestors say will force thousands out of their homes.
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How Wall Street Caused a Water Crisis in America’s Cities
Vulnerable residents are paying the price for dangerous financial deals.
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The Rise of Trump Shows the Danger and Sham of Compelled Journalistic “Neutrality”
Imagine calling yourself a journalist, and then — as you watch an authoritarian politician get closer to power by threatening violence and stoking the ugliest impulses — denouncing not that politician, but the journalists who warn of those dangers.
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Factory Farming Divestment Movement Puts Animal Welfare In Spotlight
Hoping to echo the success of the fossil fuel divestment movement, campaigners are now urging investors to wake up to the financial risk for businesses that rely on meat, dairy and eggs produced through antibiotics and factory-style farms.
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Did Shell's Failure to Disclose Climate Risks Break the Law?
Congressmen who have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Exxon now request a similar probe of Shell.
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The Graveyard of the Elites
The revolt may be right-wing, it may have heavy overtones of fascism, it may cement into place a frightening police state. But that a revolt is coming is incontrovertible. The absurdity of the election proves it.
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The 30-Year Economic Betrayal Dragging Down Millennials' Income
The full scale of the financial rout facing millennials is revealed today in exclusive new data that points to a perfect storm of factors besetting an entire generation of young adults around the world: debt, joblessness and unaffordable rent.
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Top Drillers Shut Down U.S. Fracking Operations as Oil Prices Continue to Tank
Giants in the fracking business – from Chesapeake Energy and Continental Resources to Whiting Petroleum and Halliburton – closed down drilling operations nationwide, leaving thousands of oil job in the lurch.
