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In Radical GOP Education Bill, For-Profit Colleges Win at Cost of Students
The 590-page bill would bolster conservative voices on campuses while cutting $15 billion in student aid over the next decade, radically reshaping the definition of higher education.
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Republicans Are Planning to Unravel Wall Street Reform
The deceivingly titled "Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act" is a terrible bill that favors banks over people and allows the same risk in our financial system that the Dodd-Frank law eliminated.
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America’s Richest 2% Made More Money in 2017 Than the Cost of the Entire Safety Net
Those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million accumulated enough wealth in 2017 alone to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES over.
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Dozens of Public Lands Advocates Say Trump Administration 'Shut Them Out'
Groups comprised of ranchers, hunters and conservationists say Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has stonewalled them.
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Capitalism as Obstacle to Equality and Democracy: The U.S. Story
The conclusion we draw from the U.S. story is not that efforts to reverse deepening inequality are foredoomed to failure – it is that mere reforms such as tax law changes are inadequate to the task. To make reforms stick requires going further to basic system change.
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The Next Stage of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins
There are multiple fronts of struggle to make net neutrality a reality: Congress, the courts, states and communities.
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Conservatives Make Us Sick: How Relentless Tory Austerity is Wrecking U.K. Healthcare
Hospitals throughout Britain have been operating in chaos in recent weeks, driven by a surge in admissions forcing up to 12-hour delays for patients being treated in emergency wards. A decade of harsh Tory austerity policies are to blame.
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Fears Grow As Rightwing Billionaires Battle to Erode U.S. Union Rights
Supreme court hears arguments Monday in a case that could strip unions of a major source of income – amid worries that the unions will lose.
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Three Major Car Rental Companies and a Bank Dump the NRA
The backlash is growing.
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Rumors Grow that the U.S. Fed is Propping Up the Stock Market
The Fed is rigging the stock market.







