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$772 million penalty for Bank of America over credit card practices Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered Bank of America to pay $772
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For reasons known only to them, Senate Republicans don’t seem to be interested in closing wage gaps for working women. — Senate Majority Leader Harry
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Coal miners say they were surveilled, harassed after making safety complaints The Huffington Post chronicles the legal trouble that miners like Kentuckian Reuben Shemwell have
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Andy Hill’s proposed tax breaks would cost big in the long run The Washington Budget & Policy Center looks at the eighteen new tax breaks
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Pubic television’s Bill Moyers talks with Jacob Kornbluth, director of Inequality for All, about the widening disparity between the super wealthy and everyone else.
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The stimulus could have done more good had it been bigger and more carefully constructed. But put simply, it prevented a second recession that could
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How the netroots + grassroots turned back the forces of austerity The Nation’s Mary Bottari explains how people-powered politics stopped the neoliberal and conservative campaign
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Republicans don’t want to govern because they can’t agree on policy directions Greg Sargent observes that while Republicans can agree on winning, they can’t agree
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Will the Obama administration stand up to Comcast? The Seattle Times’ Jon Talton wonders whether the Obama administration will object to Comcast’s proposed acquisition of
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That’s sweat of a poor worker on your pizza The Tacoma News Tribune’s Bill Hall eloquently explains why we need to raise the minimum wage.
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Why the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is even worse than you think Brian Barrett: “The mere mention of Comcast and Time Warner cuddling up to
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Contrary to some accounts, he went through every gyration of combinations and found what we all know to be true: You can’t get everybody on
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Not to rain on Hawks’ parade… but the NFL’s economic hype doesn’t match reality Seattle Times columnist Jon Talton explains that generous public subsidies for
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Washington State and workers’ rights: Two peas in a pod Fortune Magazine’s Claire Zillman explains that Washington has long been a place where progressive activism
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Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We’ve gone beyond bad economic doctrine. We’ve even gone beyond selfishness and special interests.
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Ticketmaster is the perfect way to demonstrate to Libertarians that the unchecked free market doesn’t end up providing the best service for everyone. What you
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Audio from a 911 call made by a terrified Orange County, Florida woman named Nancy Jacobini who was relaxing comfortably on her couch when she
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