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Why We Allow Big Pharma to Rip Us Off
Pharmaceutical companies and device makers paid doctors some $380 million over a five-month period in 2013. Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
Amazon Wage Theft Case Comes Before The Supreme Court
If the Roberts court sides with Amazon, businesses will feel free to increase the ways they get time and work out of workers without paying them. Already, several major corporations are battling wage-theft claims.
Progressive Breakfast
Senate Control On Knife's Edge With One Month To Go Battle for Senate tight. HuffPost: "The battle to control the Senate remains deeply competitive, according to new data from CBS/New York Times/YouGov polling conducted nationwide and NBC/Marist surveys in three key...
Progressive Champion Lee Saunders: "Disrupter" For Working People
The head of AFSCME is being honored for going beyond being a fierce defender of public employees to being an effective coalition-builder in the larger fight for the dignity of all working people.
America's Ridiculously Rich: The 2014 Edition
The just-released new Forbes 400 numbers don't just stagger the imagination. They stagger common sense. The average Forbes 400 deep-pocket now holds a net worth 70,000 times the wealth of the median household.
"Trade" Agreements Or "Corporate Rights" Agreements?
The public is finally "getting it" about these one-way trade agreements. They were sold to us as "job creators," but the record is the reverse. They have cost jobs and increased the trade deficit.
Wingnut Week In Review: Intruder Alert
Given their longstanding loathing for him, it was touching to see so many right-wingers express concern for President Obama’s safety this week.
Corporations Abandon ALEC's Agenda; Some States Are Still Stuck With It
Corporations that continue to support the American Legislative Exchange Council risk damage to their brands. States that enact ALEC’s economic agenda risk damage to their economies.
Enormous, Humongous August Trade Deficit Drained "Only" $40.1 Billion
Another $40 billion leaked out of our economy in August, taking jobs, factories and good living standards with it. This means U.S. employers can further threaten employees with moving their job to China.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE EXTRA - September Jobs Report: The Old Economy Strikes Back OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage breaks down the September jobs report: Today’s September jobs report provides a sober corrective to President Obama’s forceful speech on the economy yesterday....
