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Stiglitz Speaks: Globalization's Grand Failure, Apple & Bad Trade Deals
Joseph Stiglitz discusses tensions between globalization and democracy, and what the euro experiment tells us about the need to resist bad trade deals like the TPP and bad tax deals that favor big corporations like Apple.
Anti-Pipeline Movement Gathers Steam
Thousands of Native Americans at Standing Rock in North Dakota are protesting a pipeline project that puts their water supply at risk, threatens to plow up their sacred sites, and would worsen climate change.
Progressive Breakfast
Campaign Battle Over Child Care NYT compares child care plans: "He proposed requiring employers to give six weeks of maternity leave ... New mothers would be paid the same amounts they would collect in unemployment benefits if they had been laid off, which is usually...
Is Donald Trump The Charter School Industry's Worst Nightmare?
Presidential candidate Donald Trump's full-throated support for school choice is the ill-conceived, grandiose, and politically polarizing gesture that many charter school proponents feared most.
Minimum Wage Increases On the Ballot In Four States
This election isn’t just about whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be president. Ballot initiatives will give voters the chance to raise the minimum wage for workers in four states.
Trump Dodges His Racist Past In His Latest Black Voter Outreach
Members of Michigan People's Campaign appeared during Donald Trump's visit to Flint, Michigan to demand he answer for specific instances of racial discrimination by him and his companies.
What Clinton and Millions of Workers Have in Common: Going To Work Sick
This weekend we learned that Hillary Clinton has been doing something that millions of other Americans also do: going to work sick. The difference is that too many American workers don’t have much of a choice.
Income Increase In Census Report Is A Boon For Small Business
The Census Bureau data shows that despite a slow and unsteady recovery, wages are recovering well and small business owners are in their strongest position to thrive in over a decade.
What Obama's Climate Legacy Tells Us About Executive Power
President Barack Obama notes that he was able to cut greenhouse gas emissions without legislation from Congress establishing a carbon cap. This is true, but not it's not the full story.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Business Dealings Under Microscope Newsweek investigates Trump's business operations and potential for conflicts of interest: "A close examination by Newsweek of the Trump Organization, including confidential interviews with business executives and some of its...
