As San Francisco Wages Rise, Questions Emerge About Enforcement

Getting the minimum wage raised was the easy part. The bigger challenge is ensuring the legislation has teeth.

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Elizabeth Warren Issues Scathing Report On America's – and Obama's – Broken Trade Promises

Warren's report detailed decades of failed trade enforcement by American presidents, including the current one.

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German Resistance And Europe's Growing Rebellion Against U.S. Transatlantic Trade Deal

The tide of public resistance against a proposed free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is rising in Germany, as opponents say the plan would harm democracy and rule of law.

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Moratorium Now! Tax Foreclosures On Thousands of Detroit Homes Will Have Devastating Effects

If carried out as expected, this year's tax foreclosures in Detroit will comprise the largest number of foreclosures in any municipality in history – and they're not even being carried out by big heartless banks, but rather by local government.

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U.S. Taxpayers Subsidizing World's Biggest Fossil Fuel Companies

A Guardian investigation of three specific projects run by Shell, ExxonMobil and Marathon Petroleum reveals that the subsidies were all granted by politicians who received significant campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry.

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Senate Democrats Knock Down Obama's Trade Agenda, Saying No to Fast Track

Members of the party banded together to prevent the Senate from considering legislation that would give the president the authority to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership unamended.

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Dodd-Frank Is Working – That's Why Congress and Wall Street Are Trying to Kill It

Wall Street hates reform for a reason – and a closer look shows why.

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One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished since 2008. Here's Why You Should Care

While megabanks make megabucks, local banks are financing businesses that create jobs and improve our well-being. So why are they disappearing so rapidly?

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Thirst For Justice: A Small Business Homeowner Fights Wells Fargo Over Foreclosure Fraud

"It’s staggering that our justice system has so failed the American people on every level – homeowners and families are being stripped of their only investment, the one most important thing, literally the place you live."

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Material Responsibility: What the Banks Did To Baltimore

Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank and Deutsche Bank manipulated “interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of loans and investments” purportedly used to fund Baltimore and other cities.

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