From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy

Here's how manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and others are doing business the cooperative way.

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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Another Argument for Publicly-Owned Banks

The deposits of U.S. pension funds are well over the insured limit of $250,000. They will get raided just as the pension funds did in Cyprus, and so will the insurance companies. Who else?

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Most Americans Want A Financial Transaction Tax -- Will Congress Hear the Call?

The proposed financial transaction tax, introduced to Congress several weeks ago, would generate more than $300 billion a year in revenue. 60 percent of Americans support it. But Congress, as usual, is stalling.

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Renewable Energy—a Jobs Producer—Wins Vote in North Carolina

The Tarheel State's economy lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2007 to 2012, but clean energy development led to a net gain in employment of 21,162 "job years"—a factor that helped legislators defeat ALEC and House Bill 298.

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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools

The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.

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11 U.S. Cities Push to Dump Fossil Fuel Investments

Mayors and city councils in nearly a dozen cities announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies.

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Greenpeace Launches Whistleblower Site for Oil Workers

The group launched The Arctic Truth to attract whistleblowers from oil companies to reveal risks associated with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.

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Remake the Fed, Build Public Banks — and Opt Out of Wall Street

Should the Federal Reserve remain in private hands?

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San Francisco: "I Don’t Think You Can Survive in This City on Minimum Wage"

At the Bay Area's largest soup kitchen, working adults say full-time work no longer pays the rent.

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The Billionaire Blue Brothers Behind America's Predator Drones

Dispatch from an abandoned WWII-era airfield that is now possibly the largest private drone base in the United States.

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