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Prison Recidivism: Causes and Possible Treatments
More than two-thirds of former inmates get arrested within their first three years of release.
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A Solar-Powered Future Is Finally Upon Us
The US Solar Energy Industries Association expects installations to rise by 25% in 2019 to a capacity of 13.3 gigawatts: more electricity than many countries in Africa and Europe need to keep their lights on.
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A Bus Tour Pushes For Higher Taxes on the Rich
Activists have convened a nationwide “Tax the Rich” bus tour to remind the country that the fight for fair taxation is far from over.
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Why is Monsanto Losing Lawsuits Over Roundup?
In the past year alone, three highly publicized lawsuits have resulted in courtroom losses for Monsanto surrounding its widely used pesticide Roundup, which contains cancer-causing glyphosate.
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Congress to Vote This Week on Doubling the Minimum Wage
This is the longest period the minimum wage has gone without an increase since it was enacted in the 1930s.
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Rebel Cities 26: These Community Wind Farms In Denmark and Scotland Are Decentralising Power to the People
Denmark and Scotland are seeing tremendous economic success in community-owned wind farms. But green municipalism doesn't need to be restricted to the wind-battered Nordic coastal fringes.
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Wall Street Beware: The Public Banking Movement Is Coming for You
The renewed interest in public banking really took off right after the financial collapse in 2008 as people began exploring the option of moving their money into alternative banking institutions
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How Businesses Have Changed Since the #MeToo Movement
Equal treatment for women in the workplace has been a point of contention since the advent of the women’s rights movement a half century ago.
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‘We Are Part of the Problem’: Billionaires and Heirs Demand Wealth Tax
“We are writing to call on all candidates for President to support a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest one-tenth of the richest 1% of Americans — on us,” said the letter signed by 19 billionaires.
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Public Acrimony Meets Political Circus As Tories Consider Next UK Prime Minister
“The only way to give the people of Britain the respect and democracy they deserve is to have a general election and let us decide who is going to lead us through profoundly turbulent times.”