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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ALEC's War on Renewables
ALEC and the Heartland Institute are crafting laws designed to repeal state-designated renewable energy targets.
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Portuguese Joins Europe's Austerity Fight
Portugal was seen as a role model in the grinding euro zone crisis - until austerity triggered a recession.
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Delinquency Rate on Student Loans Tops Credit Cards
There's more troubling news about student loans, the highest source of non-mortgage debt.
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Tar Sands Blockaders Lock Themselves to Trucks Outside Valero's Houston Refinery
Activists in Houston began a sustained hunger strike on Thursday, demanding that energy giant Valero divest from the Keystone XL Pipeline project.
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NYC Fast Food Workers Strike, Attempt to Unionize
Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job Thursday, firing the first salvo in the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States.
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The Missing Living Wage Agenda
It’s time to get real about the concrete policies needed to take on the multiple inequalities that run deep through the U.S. labor market.
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Mississippi County Jails Kids For School Dress Code Violations, Tardiness
In Meridian, Mississippi, it is school officials – not police – who determine who should be arrested.
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Internet Privacy? Not if Government Has Its Way
On Thursday, the Senate will consider a new bill that allows the government to have total access to email accounts without a warrant.
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Canada, the Surprise Pariah of the Kyoto Protocol
Some Canadians doubt whether their country should have any say in negotiating the second Kyoto Protocol after it became the only nation to reject the first one.
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Austerity: The 1%'s Global Battle Cry
The world economy is not in crisis because of debt. It's because too many have too little to buy what has been created.
