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“CoreCivic”: New Name, Same For-Profit Prison Greed

[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmOWx6gyMo[/fve] Richard Eskow interviewed "Dee,” an anonymous prison strike leader jailed at an undisclosed facility in the Carolinas The for-profit prison industry is in trouble. Bernie Sanders came out against it in the...

A Conversation on the Real Living Wage in America

Allyson Fredericksen, Deputy Director of Research for the People's Action Institute, discusses her new report with Richard Eskow on "The Zero Hour." Click here for audio. The People's Action Institute's new report, Waiting for Payoff: How Low Wages and Student Debt...

Obamacare's Biggest Problem is Profit, Not Government

It’s true: the Affordable Care Act is having problems. But Republicans who say those problems are caused by “big government” have it exactly backward. Obamacare's current difficulties are grounded in our country’s political fetishization of the private sector – a fad...

What Does It Take to Survive Where You Live?

How much does it take to get by where you live? A new report concludes that current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour doesn’t come close, anywhere in the United States. It takes more than $15 per hour to earn a living wage in most states. When you throw in the...

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