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Tories' Spring Budget Aids Corporations, Punishes the Poor and Self-Employed
Among the biggest controversies of the spring budget was the announcement that tax will be increased for the self-employed, meaning cabbies, plumbers, gardeners and the like will have to pay significantly more in tax.
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Rato Finito: Spanish Citizens Send Most Corrupt Banker-Politician to Jail
A citizen-led campaign last month succeeded in prosecuting Spain’s top banker-politician, Rodrigo Rato, and 65 co-conspirators in a case that rattled the upper echelons of the country's political and financial elite.
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"Our Water, Our Right": 10 Global Struggles for Public Water
On this World Water Day, March 22, we bring you 10 inspiring stories of communities and cities working to reclaim public control over water and wastewater services from major private water multinationals.
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New Evidence that Poor Americans Pay the Highest Taxes and Get Little of the Safety Net
Poor Americans pay about 25 percent in total taxes, while the 1% pays anywhere from 18 to 23 percent. Meanwhile, the richest 10% as a group receives almost as much government assistance as the poorest 50%.
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Republican Majorities Accelerate Dismantling of Public Education Protections
Holding majorities across three levels of state governance, Republicans can continue to slash budgets for k-12 education while deregulating urban schools via voucher programs and charter schools.
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Forbes 2017 Billionaires List: "It Was a Record Year for the Richest People on Earth."
The number of billionaires jumped 13% to 2,043 from 1,810 last year – the first time ever that Forbes has pinned down more than 2,000 ten-figure-fortunes – while their total net worth rose by 18% to $7.67 trillion, also a record.
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Trumpcare Would Leave 24 Million Without Insurance by 2026, Says Congressional Budget Office
The Republican health care plan would cut spending on subsidies to help Americans purchase health insurance while rolling back the ACA's Medicaid expansion and capping per-person spending on the program.
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Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government
ProPublica obtained a list of more than 400 Trump administration hires, including dozens of lobbyists and some from far-right media, who compose the “beachhead teams” that operate largely in the shadows.
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Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here’s How They Did It
Complaining that the United States has one of the world’s highest corporate tax levels, President Trump and congressional Republicans have repeatedly vowed to shrink it.
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Big Oil's Influence: Flurry of State Bills Introduced to Penalize Electric Car Drivers
Since the start of 2017, six states – Indiana, South Carolina, Kansas, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Montana – have introduced legislation requiring electric vehicle owners to pay hundreds of dollars in yearly fees.
