If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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Reports Show Austerity Is Hitting the UK’s Poorest Regions the Hardest
As wealth inequality deepens in the U.K., recent research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows it’s the most deprived areas – and the poorest households – that are bearing the brunt of incessant austerity policies.
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Seeds of Change: Corporate Power, Grassroots Resistance and the Battle For the Food System
Despite the power wielded by agribusiness giants that quash legislation designed to protect consumer and farmer interests against genetically modified foods, the global resistance is growing.
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Spanish Congress Approves Anti-Democratic Laws Curbing Protests, Press, Internet and Speech
A draconian new gag law will punish Spanish activists with severe fines for organizing in public space, sending tweets, photographing the police, stopping foreclosure evictions, gathering in front of Congress, and many other democratic acts.
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The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
The emergence of these two groups is relatively new – and both challenge the core American assumptions that people are paid what they’re worth and that work is justly rewarded
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A Fight for Union Rights Hits Major Hotel Chains In San Francisco
Unionized hotel workers from across the city are demanding the Chesapeake Lodging Trust – which owns Le Meridien and Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf – allow workers to choose whether or not they want to unionize.
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Subsidies To Industries That Cause Deforestation Worth 100 Times More Than Aid To Prevent It
Brazil and Indonesia have handed out over $40 billion in subsidies to the palm oil, timber, soy, beef and biofuels sectors between 2009 and 2012 – 126 times more than the $346 million they received from the UN to preserve their rainforests.
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Here Are All the Athletes, Celebrities, and CEOs Joining the Indiana Backlash
The state is reeling from a PR crisis since Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which will give businesses the option to discriminate against LGBT customers on religious grounds.
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Four Reasons Why Corporations Owe Us – and One Way to Pay
Because corporations have used our resources — research, infrastructure, environment, educational and legal systems — to develop technologies that have gradually reduced the need for human involvement, we all deserve to benefit.
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Maple Spring: The Red Square Movement Returns As Anti-Austerity Protests Heat Up In Quebec
Quebec's militant student actions have resulted in the lowest costs for post-secondary education in North America – and it has also meant less debt for young people entering a stagnant economy.
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This is Not a Democracy: How the 1 Percent Rigged the Game
Money is speech and dollars have more influence than people. It's time to be honest about the plutocracy we live in.
