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Will We Continue to Ignore the Poor?
We've got a problem in this country, though few politicians will say it out loud: poverty.
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Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup
At a protest last year at New York University, students called attention to their mounting debt by wearing T-shirts with the amount they owed scribbled across the front — $90,000, $75,000, $20,000.
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Growth is the Problem
The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let's not revive it.
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Dissent is Now a Crime
Massive police presence at the national political conventions has become a given. But what happens to all of the high-tech cop toys and newly passed anti-democratic ordinances once conventioneers leave town? They stay.
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The Strike is On in Chicago
The Chicago teachers' strike is on, and it's a worthy battle in the war on the poor.
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Historic Win for Restaurant Workers Union
Fired by a union-busting boss, several dozen workers from a New York Hot and Crusty occupied their restaurant - then opened their own sidewalk cafe, forcing their owner to cede to their demands.
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7 Ways to End the Deficit - Without Throwing Grandma Under the Bus
This fall, the U.S. Congress is going to wage a pitched, dragged-out battle over cutting roughly $120 billion a year to solve the so-called deficit crisis. Vital things like teachers’ jobs and Medicare could well get cut.
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The Constitution According to Barack Obama
Since most of the examination of our President comes from either the daily hypocrasies of Mitt and friends or the coddling progressive left, I thought I would examine “our guy” on a few issues with a bit more scrutiny and fairness.
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Democrats Retreat on Civil Liberties in 2012 Platform
The 2012 Democratic platform abandons or omits much of the '08 version's focus on civil liberties in the war on terror.
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Undercover Agents Assault Journalists at Democratic Convention in Charlotte
Charlotte, NC — Two journalists covering the Democratic National Convention were confronted on Sunday by two undercover agents who assaulted one and threatened to punch the other in the mouth for photographing them.
