We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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Purchasing A President: Nearing $1 Billion, White House Race Eclipses Anything Previous
The presidential campaign is now a super PAC-fueled arms race where almost everyone has a money bomb – half the cash raised so far came from those groups, which have no contribution limits.
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Low Wages, Rising Rents: Why California Workers Can’t Afford A Roof Over Their Head
According to the California Housing Partnership Corporation, a combination of falling incomes and high rents is driving the worst rental-housing crisis in California since World War II.
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Homelessness Soaring in the UK As People Can No Longer Afford To Pay Rent
One in five renters in Britain could not afford to pay January’s rent out of their normal salary and were forced to resort to credit cards, loans, overdrafts, pay day loans and borrowing from friends and family in order to pay housing costs.
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New York City Set to Triple Its Number of Worker Cooperatives
It marks the largest investment to date in worker co-ops by a city government in the U.S.
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Copenhagen Announces Plan To Divest $1 Billion From Fossil Fuels
If the mayor's proposal is approved at a finance committee meeting Tuesday, the Danish capital will become the country’s first investment fund to sell its stocks and bonds in fossil fuels.
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Bernie Targets Top 10 Corporate Tax Dodgers On Eve Of Iowa Primary
Sanders pledged Friday to close loopholes that allow Fortune 500 companies to exploit offshore tax havens, which last year enabled them to avoid paying U.S. taxes on over $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits.
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Why Wall Street Won the First Round and How We Might Win the Next
Will it take a coming crisis to finally achieve what the reaction of the 2008 financial crisis failed to do – place finance capital under restraints? Iceland may have been the exception to the rule, but it shows that democratic control of the banks is possible.
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Private Companies are Making a Killing in the Justice System
Corporations like Aramark and CCA make money at almost every step of our justice and prison systems, from processing fines to monitoring ankle bracelets and drug testing. And they make a lot of it.
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More than 1,000 Arrested In Tunisian Anti-Government Protests Five Years After Revolution
In demonstrations organized by the Union of Internal Security Forces, 300 of those detained had broken a strict curfew put in place nationwide last Friday after widespread looting and rioting broke out.
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Air Regulator Sues California Utility Over Historic Methane Leak That Poisoned Community
The stench of odorized methane fumes has sickened scores of people since the leak began on Oct. 23 and has forced SoCalGas to move residents from more than 7,700 homes in northern L.A. at the edge of the leaking gas storage field.
