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3 Places To Live The American Retirement Dream
By Kathleen Peddicord Perhaps you like the idea of stretching your retirement dollars as far as possible (who doesn’t?) and reducing your cost of living and of health care, while at the same time enriching and enhancing your quality of … Continue reading
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Tagged American dream, Panama, relax, retire, Retirement, United States, work
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How Bureaucrats Stand in the Way of Releasing Elderly and Ill Prisoners
By Christie Thompson Former inmate Veronica Barnes had three years left to serve in federal prison when she found out in January 2011 that her husband John was dying of pancreatic cancer. Doctors said it was inoperable. They gave him … Continue reading
It’s the Wages, Stupid
By Daniel Gross Welcomed by the left, and sure to be jeered or ignored by the right, it was full of plenty of old-time Democratic economic gospel and present-day center-left thought leadership. But it was a little bit light on … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic, Economic Inequality, economic mobility, minimum wage, United States, wages
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How Wall Street Power Brokers Are Designing the Future of Public Education as a Money-Making Machine
By Anna Simonton Given that Arthur Rock has a net worth of $1 billion, lives in California and spends his time heaping money on tech startups (with the mantra, “Get in, get out,” as his guide), a local school board … Continue reading
Abortion Restrictions Are Harming Women’s Health and Human Rights in Texas
By Andrea Flynn Last week the Supreme Court decided to leave in place a Texas law that has essentially closed a third of the abortion providers in that state. On their own, the abortion restrictions are devastating. But in the … Continue reading
Millions of Americans Have No Food at Holiday Time
By Edward Wyckoff Williams It is a strange and ironic truth that in the world’s richest democracy, many Americans are going to work in the morning, but they and their families are going to bed hungry at night. As Christmas … Continue reading
Launch code for US nukes was 00000000 for 20 years
By Sean Gallagher Remember all those cold war movies where nuclear missile crews are frantically dialing in the secret codes sent by the White House to launch nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles? Well, for two decades, all the Minuteman nuclear missiles … Continue reading
Former NFL players sue Kansas City Chiefs over injuries
By Al Jazerra America and Associated Press Five former football players filed a lawsuit against the Kansas City Chiefs on Tuesday, claiming that the team’s management hid information and even lied to players about the risks of head injuries. The … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: America hates its poor
By Chris Steele This is an excerpt from the just released second edition of Noam Chomsky’s “Occupy: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity,” edited by Greg Ruggiero and published by Zuccotti Park Press. An article that recently came out in Rolling … Continue reading
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Tagged Class Warfare, culture, greed, income inequality, Noam Chomsky, poor, United States
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12 Years a Slave and the Obama Era
By Jonathan Chait This last weekend, I finally saw 12 Years a Slave. It was the most powerful movie I’ve ever seen in my life, an event so gripping and terrifying that, when I went to bed ten hours later … Continue reading →