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California Senate Passes Minimum Wage Bill Boosting Pay to $13 An Hour
Under Senate Bill 3, which passed by a vote of 23-15, California’s minimum wage would rise to $11 an hour next year and $13 the year after – and begin increasing annually in 2019 based on inflation.
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The People's Lawyer: Fighting Against Foreclosure Fraud and Courts' Abuse of Power
"I think this economic collapse was carefully calculated as a means to redistribute wealth from the middle class to the wealthy."
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Exclusive: Two Years After Snowden Revelations, Glenn Greenwald Talks About Impacts on Surveillance State
"Defeatism is never warranted. There are always ways individuals can tap the power within themselves to confront injustices.”
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Senators Come Out Swinging for Debt-Free College As 2016 Campaign Issue Builds Steam
On Wednesday, nine Democratic senators came out in support of a resolution to make four-year public colleges in the U.S. debt-free.
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EPA Issues Sweeping Rules Protecting America's Drinking Water, Streams and Wetlands
Drinking water for 117 million Americans will be protected under new rules shielding small streams, tributaries and wetlands from pollution and development.
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Anti-Corruption Activists Join Occupy.com In Seattle June 4th - Calling for Citizen Empowerment
On June 4, two of the nation’s leading voices against political corruption, Lawrence Lessig and Marianne Williamson, will join Occupy.com's screening of "Killswitch" in a call for sweeping citizen action to root money out of politics in 2016.
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The Financial Transactions Tax Could Be a Game Changer on Wall Street
The FTT proposed last week by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would impose a sales tax on stocks and other financial assets, forcing speculators to pay a tax on their trades just like people who buy shoes or clothes.
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Anti-Poverty Activist Becomes Barcelona Mayor As Indignados Surge to Power
Spain’s 15-M Movement made the move from city squares to the halls of power on Sunday in municipal and regional elections that saw the ruling People’s party battered at the ballot box.
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As L.A. Joins $15 Movement, A Fascinating Minimum Wage Experiment Is About to Unfold
Some of the biggest cities in America are now defying decades of economic orthodoxy and challenging social norms that regarded low-wage jobs as unavoidable and acceptable.
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We Need a New Economic System
It's time to begin the careful work of knitting together broad, pluralistic conceptions of what a transformed system might look like.