Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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New Economic Model for the South: Ditch Corporate Welfare & Fund Agricultural Co-ops
More than 200 black-owned co-ops in the South have been established in the past 25 years, providing a model to alleviate poverty and widespread health problems like diabetes and malnutrition.
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Act Out! [137] - 400+ Reasons to Eat the Rich & Why NAFTA Can’t Be Saved
This week on Act Out!, tempting though it may be to ignore all things real and political for the next few days, hiding behind cranberry sauce and turkey legs won't change the ever-widening and gaping abyss before us.
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An Independent Thinker’s Guide to the Tax Debate
For 40 years, tax cutters in Congress have told us, “we have a tax cut for you.” In exchange, we’ve gotten staggering inequality, collapsing public infrastructure, a fraying safety net, and exploding deficits – as the richest tenth of 1% get richer.
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"Walmart Moms" Walk Off In 20 Cities Demanding Better Pay and Conditions
Strikes in 20 cities come as new report says top Walmart bosses received $104 million in taxpayer subsidies over six years.
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Money in Politics: Six of the Top 10 U.S. Billionaires Are Kochs and Waltons
Charles and David Koch, of Koch Industries, have poured some of their combined $72 billion into conservative politicians while the Walton family, owners of Walmart, exercise a subtler but equally corrosive influence on our national politics.
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CEOs Against Grandmas: How an Unpatriotic Corporate Elite Are Pillaging Retirees
The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security — yet are part of austerity armies determined to make older people pay.
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Number of Billionaires Is Growing Globally As Inequality Spreads
Gone are the days when U.S. billionaires accounted for over 40 percent of the global list, with Western Europe and Japan making up most of the rest. Today, the Asia-Pacific region hosts 386 billionaires, 20 more than all of Europe and Russia combined.
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U.S. Executive Pay Soars As "The Outrageous Has Become the Everyday"
According to figures released last week, 38% of the top-paid CEOs of U.S. companies over the past two decades were fired or headed companies that were either bailed out by taxpayers or forced to pay significant fraud-related fines.
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Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty
The 16th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations is underway in Singapore this week, paving the way for a super-sized trade deal that benefits corporations, not people.
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"Soak the Rich": Rediscovering Economic Fairness in America
Can we shrink our super rich down to a less powerful and more democratic size? Of course we can: we've done it before.
