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Corporate State
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As Sanders Prepared Medicare Bill, Health Care Lobbyists Bankrolled Senate Democrats
Corporate lobbyists for some of the nation’s major private insurers and drug companies poured huge sums of money into Senate Democrats’ fundraising accounts. Now, many of those lawmakers are refusing to back the Medicare bill.
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The Racial Wealth Gap Is Leading To An Almost-Nonexistent Middle Class
A new study finds that if the racial wealth divide is left unaddressed, the median wealth for black Americans will fall to $0 by 2053, with Latino Americans reaching the same median wealth two decades later.
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These Corporations Have the Biggest Influence on Climate Policy
The "Corporate Carbon Policy Footprint," a new analysis from InfluenceMap, now ranks Koch Industries as the company with the strongest opposition to the Paris climate agreement
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Citizen Debt Audits are Challenging Big Finance in the U.K. and Beyond
For citizen debt audits, the only way to challenge the power of banks is to reveal their crimes – then build a public movement that mobilizes around the injustice, demanding the public money be spent in the public interest.
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White Christians Are Now a Minority—But They’re Getting More Isolated and Less Tolerant
Religious homophobia is driving away young people, but evangelical leaders double down on anti-LGBT bigotry.
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World's Wealthiest Families Keep Getting Richer as Markets Boom
Only a tiny number of super-rich families lost money last year, and three in four increased their fortunes, research finds.
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Wells Fargo, Why Are You Still Here?
If the powers that be actually stood for consumer protection and legal ethics, rules, laws, enforcement and oversight, we’d be seeing a good old fashioned perp walk like we used to with Stumpf and Sloan in ankle chains and orange jumpsuits.
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Ivanka Backs Trump Administration's Plan to Scrap Obama Rules Preventing Pay Discrimination
The Obama-era provision was meant to help address the gender pay gap that the president’s daughter has claimed to care about.
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You Can’t Be Serious: Debunking The Dangerous Arguments Against Dodd-Frank
Dodd-Frank, however imperfect, isn’t just about protecting average folks from reckless, predatory finance. It’s also about protecting Big Finance from itself.
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What Exxon Mobil Didn’t Say About Climate Change
Even while Exxon Mobil scientists were contributing to climate science and writing reports that explained it to their bosses, the company was paying for advertisements that told a very different tale.
