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Occupy the Safety Net

Organizers have found a new approach to promoting workers’ rights at the retail giant. And it seems to be working.

Spencer Woodman

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now, they're condemned as “illegals.”
Posted 01/06/2012
President Obama installed Richard Cordray as head of the CFPB today—and prepared for battle with Republicans over consumer protection from financial predators. 
Posted 01/06/2012
Republicans in Congress are quietly killing the provisions of Obama’s stimulus act that have kept millions out of poverty.
Posted 01/06/2012

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Ignoring the signs of dire need, the government is slashing its housing budget.

Hands Off Our Pensions

What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.

Land parched by drought in China

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

How Wall Street Occupied America

Why the rich keep getting richer and our democracy is getting poorer.

Blaming themselves for their plight, the unemployed don’t look to protest—or to government—for a way out.

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