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It’s Time to Do Something When a Corporation Like WalMart Won’t Pay a Living Wage: Or Else We All Pay
By Thom Hartmann Last week, thousands of fast food workers from across the country walked off their jobs to demand a living wage of $15 an hour. Ever since, the Republican talking point machine has been running on all cylinders. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, fast food, jobs, Living wage, minimum wage, poverty, United States, wages, Walmart
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US fast-food workers in vanguard of growing protests at ‘starvation’ wages
By Edward Helmore McDonald’s in New York’s Times Square, in midsummer. The fast food store heaves with native New Yorkers and tourists, including a table of Filipino nuns and a troupe of burlesque actors. The staff, remarkably unstressed, offer only … Continue reading
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Tagged employment, fast food, Living wage, McDonald, minimum wage, money, New York, Times Square, United States, wages, wall street, Walmart
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Angela Davis – Trayvon Martin and Violence in America
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Tagged african american, Angela Davis, presentation, Trayvon Martin, United States, video, violence
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How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans
In 2009, consumer advocates in Washington State decided to try a new approach to regulating payday loans. Like reformers in other states, they’d tried to get the legislature to ban high-cost loans outright — but had hit a brick wall. … Continue reading
‘A Dream Foreclosed’: How Financial Predators Created a Crisis That Led to 10 Million Americans Being Evicted
By Amy Goodman and Laura Gottesdiener As President Obama heads to Phoenix today to tout the “housing recovery,” journalist Laura Gottesdiener examines the devastating legacy of the foreclosure crisis and how much of the so-called recovery is a result of … Continue reading
Why I changed my mind on weed
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called “Weed.” The title “Weed” may sound cavalier, but the content is not. I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders, experts, growers … Continue reading
How Secrecy Has Already Corroded Our Democracy in Concrete Ways
By Conor Friedersdorf This summer, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, an author and longtime champion of the Patriot Act, emerged as one of the most concerned voices arguing that the law is being used to violate the rights of Americans. A letter the … Continue reading
10 Reasons Lawyers Say Florida’s Law Enforcement Threw Away George Zimmerman’s Case
By Steven Rosenfeld Florida law enforcement, from the local police to the special prosecutor overseeing the Trayvon Martin case, did not want to see George Zimmerman convicted of murder and deliberately threw away the case, allowing their prosecution to crumble. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Angela Corey, Florida, George Zimmerman, justice, law, Marissa Alexander, NPR, race, racism, Rick Scott, Trayvon Martin, United States
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What your paid-for car is costing you
By Tara Baukus Mello If you own your car outright, you might not think it costs you that much to own it, but AAA’s 2013 Your Driving Costs study shows that costs range from nearly $7,000 to more than $11,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged AAA, American Automobile Association, Automobile, consumer, costs, driving, economy, money, United States
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