The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Bank of America Pays $17 Billion To Settle Mortgage Fraud – And You Call That Justice?
This is the largest fine so far, but yet again there seems to be a reluctance to name and punish the individuals responsible.
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Why Minimum Wage Laws Aren’t Just for Workers with the Lowest Wages
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful lessons about the minimum wage, government policy and unions.
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Extortion in Argentina: Odious Debt Is Pillaging the Nation into Bankruptcy
The lesson is this: if creditors know that a few holdout vultures can trigger a default, they're unlikely to settle with other insolvent nations in the future.
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Fearing Protests At Stock Exchange, London Rewrites Rules On Paternoster Square
The increased protection for the square, which contains banks and one of the country's most important financial buildings, adds to the crackdown on dissent in Britain.
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How Crony Capitalism and Deregulation Poisoned Toledo's Water
Like other water-related crises this year in West Virginia and Detroit, the poisoning of Toledo's water is tied to corruption at the highest levels of state government by corporate special interests.
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Meet the Astroturf Kingpin: Rick Berman, Anti-Activism Propagandist
Posing as an activist watchdog, a tobacco lobbyist seeks to fool voters into adopting pro-corporate positions on the most pressing current economic issues.
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It's Official: The One Percent Are Literally Rich Beyond Measure
The wealth of the most well off people is under-counted because they hide it in tax shelters, keep it in foundations and holding companies, and don’t respond to questionnaires, according to recent research.
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"Houses Are Bouncing" In Oklahoma As Fracktivity Triggers Record Earthquakes
Since January, Oklahoma has had 292 earthquakes registering a magnitude 3.0 or larger, more than any state in the U.S – and nearly triple the 109 it had last year, thanks to massive oil and gas drilling.
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California Voters Outraged As "Citizens United" Measure Removed From Fall Ballot
On Monday, the state Supreme Court took the unexpected and widely condemned act of blocking Proposition 49, which would have enabled voters to reject Citizens United in November.
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Criminal Charges Brought Against Payday Loan Firms In New York
Carey Vaughn Brown owned a dozen companies that enabled payday loans to flout the state’s limits on interest rates in loans to New Yorkers.
