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Swiss Voters Defeat Bill Seeking to Cap Executive Pay
Though voters rejected a proposal Sunday to limit top executives' salaries, anger over pay has tapped a nerve in Switzerland, where people are increasingly unhappy with rising wealth inequality.
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Exposed: University President Lied to Students About Fracking On School Property
“It’s insulting to know that an entity I’ve been paying $4,000 in yearly tuition is also responsible for my deteriorating health."
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$10 Trillion Heist: Debunking the Myth that "U.S. Corporations Pay Too Much Taxes"
Since 2009, $10 trillion in buybacks, payouts and hoarded cash by U.S. corporations have been diverted from tax revenues and real investment.
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Obamacare Faces New Threat at State Level from Corporate Mega-Lobby ALEC
A new proposal by the American Legislative Exchange Council, approved at its annual meeting in Chicago in August and published as a model bill for adoption by state assemblies nationwide, would scupper the federal health insurance exchanges.
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Puppet States: How National Power Brokers Pull the Strings in State Elections
Since the Supreme Court loosened rules on political spending in 2010, unions and business groups have focused money on state elections, a new analysis shows.
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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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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Meet Protests in Salt Lake City
Outside the Grand America Hotel, the rains fell, the speakers rose, the marchers chanted. Inside, top trade negotiators from the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations discussed imports and exports, profits and products, prices and patents.
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Walmart Holding Canned Food Drive For Its Own Underpaid Employees
“Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,” reads a sign in the employee lounge of a Canton-area Walmart.
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Counting the Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation’s most fabulously privileged and everyone else.
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Massive Leak and Bi-Partisan House Opposition Strike Double Blow to Trans-Pacific Partnership
Broad bi-partisan opposition announced this week shows that winning Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority for the corporate coup known as the TPP has little support in Congress. In fact, the letters may be the death knell for such legislation.
