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From Rome, Five Essential Insights on Inequality
In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world — and helping inspire resistance to it. His new "apostolic exhortation" offers a surprisingly wide-ranging critique of our unequal status quo.
A Walmart Thanksgiving, by Charles Dickens
It will be “a pretty high energy day” for employees forced to work on Thanksgiving, said a Walmart executive. What would Charles Dickens make of this latest development at the nation's largest employer?
American Workers: From Bounty to Bleakness
At the first Thanksgiving, Native Americans sat side by side with pilgrims – religious leader by huntsman, chief by planter. They shared the bounty they’d all worked to create. This Thanksgiving will be very different for too many American workers.
For Obamacare, Nothing Succeeds like Success
Despite its flawed roll-out, most Americans are willing to give health care reform time to succeed. That’s good news for Obamacare, because it’s already succeeding in states that have fully adopted it. And the success stories are multiplying.
Food Stamps Cut Just In Time For Thanksgiving
This is that time of year when newspapers bother to write about how there are hungry people in America. But this year is special. As the recession drags on for the non-1%, cuts in Food Stamps have completely swamped the capacity of food banks.
Are Corporations People That Get To Take Away Other People's Healthcare?
The Supreme Court will rule next year if corporations can ignore parts of the Affordable Care Act on religious grounds. But f a corporation take away your contraception coverage, your vaccines and your psychiatric therapy may be next.
Progressive Breakfast
President Steps Up Defense Of Health Reform Obama increasingly confident during West Coast swing. Reuters: "Although he occasionally referred pejoratively to the 'darn' website, HealthCare.gov, he made a point of shifting his message to the positive benefits his law...
President Obama's DreamWorks Economy and the Challenge for Democrats
President Obama tells Americans the country is on the right track, but Americans aren't buying. The problem isn't the botched Obamacare launch. It is that the economy doesn't work for working people.
10 Things We Learned (or Re-Learned) In Chase's Latest Fraud Deal
Just when it seemed that there was nothing more to learn about the illegal and immoral culture which has permeated JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, more facts emerge.
A Little Light in the Dark Corridors of Power
Four and a half years after the "recovery" began, economic pain remains widespread. Yet the Washington/Wall Street tell Americans, "Have patience." Now, Larry Summers suggests a core economic assumption of the American elite might be dead wrong.
