It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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How the Increase in Suburban Poverty Is Tied to Homelessness
As the housing market stabilized, suburban areas offered the most affordable housing prices for people with families – which helps explain the increase in poverty populations for suburban neighborhoods.
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Hungarians Take to the Streets to Protest an Election Seen as a Hammer Blow to Democracy
Tens of thousands protested in Budapest after a contested election that delivered two-thirds of the seats in Hungary's Parliament to the ruling Fidesz party which won just 47% of the national popular vote.
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Kentucky Lawmakers Override Budget Veto in Win for Teachers
The votes came Friday as thousands of teachers rallied inside and outside the Capitol, forcing more than 30 school districts to close as Kentucky continued the chorus of teacher protests across the country.
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Capturing Minds: Is There Life After Facebook?
The new crypto-social network Minds allows for the same level of high-functioning interaction as Facebook, but a big difference is that it is completely open-source, decentralized and user-owned.
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Rebel Cities, 1: "Marielle Franco Presente!"
The brutal murder last month of Marielle Franco – Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, sociologist, single mother and leading light in Brazil's Feminist Spring – has reverberated across the world.
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How Privatization Sparked the Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising
For more than a decade, state legislators—Democrats and Republicans alike—have marched the state off the proverbial financial cliff, then used budget shortfalls to push privatization.
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Study Says that 36% of College Students Don't Have Enough to Eat
A survey of 43,000 students at 66 campuses says many forgo meals because they can't afford it.
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Britain Seeing Wide Gender Pay Gap As Company Reports Trickle In
Fewer than one in seven U.K. women earns more than her male counterpart in the same company. Men also take home £1 in bonuses for every 27 pence that women earn.
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Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline
Environmental and indigenous groups are cheering after Kinder Morgan announced it was halting most work on its controversial Trans Mountain expansion pipeline project, citing continuing opposition.
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The First Signs of a Global Climate Change Immigration Crisis Are Here
The Mekong Delta region is the canary in the coalmine – one of the first places in the world to feel the real and lasting effects of climate change, and a grim indication of what's to come.
