Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Older American Descend Into Retirement Without A Golden Parachute
The rate of bankruptcy for those 65 and older increased more than 200 percent between 1991-2016, paralleling the decline of workers in defined benefits plans.
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Public Acrimony Meets Political Circus As Tories Consider Next UK Prime Minister
“The only way to give the people of Britain the respect and democracy they deserve is to have a general election and let us decide who is going to lead us through profoundly turbulent times.”
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Monsanto Has Been Ordered To Pay More Than $2 Billion To A Couple With Cancer
The jury award marked the latest and most devastating blow to the agrochemical giant over its popular Roundup weed killer.
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Why the 'One Percent' In the U.S. Is Worried
The wealthy elite increasingly recognizes that the socioeconomic status quo in the U.S. is unsustainable.
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Record Student Loan Debt Shadows This Year’s College Graduates
Students face a Catch-22: not going to college almost guarantees not progressing into the middle class, but high student loan debt also restricts social and economic advancement.
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The Bankster Welfare State: Where Crime Pays
In a newly published paper, “Wall Street’s Six Biggest Bailed-Out Banks: Their RAP Sheets & Their Ongoing Crime Spree,” the non-profit group Better Markets reports $29 trillion spent in total bailout money.
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Reaching Critical Mass On Taxing The Rich
Polls regularly show broad public support for having our wealthiest pay quite a bit more at tax time. But we haven’t had critical mass on taxing the rich within our political class – until now.
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The Kings of Capitalism are Finally Worried About the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor
Now that the political debate has shifted, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio is the latest in a bank of billionaires to talk about the gap between rich and poor
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Chartering Disaster: Trump Admin's Education Priorities 'Asleep at the Wheel'
The federal budget proposal for 2020 includes increased funding to charter schools – even as a recent report shows $1 billion in federal funding went to charters that are now closed, or never even opened in the first place.
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A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme wealth disparities. Here's a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.
