Connecticut Bill Would Fine Corporations for Low Wages

The proposed legislation would subject for-profit companies with 500 or more employees to a fine for every employee who is paid less than $15 an hour, essentially forcing those companies to raise wages or pay if they refuse.

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Turning the Tide: A Newspaper for People In Prison Gets A Second Wind

Through a grassroots fundraising campaign, Vanessa Carlisle was able to turn this L.A.-based newspaper for incarcerated people into a sustainable publication.

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Mind the Wealth Gap: Five Reasons San Francisco Needs to Use Public Lands for Public Benefit

The angst that is swelling throughout San Francisco and pushing outward to other Bay Area cities is not because people are resisting change – the angst is over the largest growing inequality gap in the country.

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How Worker Co-ops are Moving Beyond Capitalism

From Detroit to Madison to New York City, labor organizers, civic leader and other activists are getting behind worker co-ops in a big way.

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The Podemos Revolution: How A Small Group Of Radical Academics Changed European Politics

Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain – now can the grassroots party actually win power and, along with Greece, help transform the continent?

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Student Debt Cancellation: The Hidden Tax Trap That Will Cripple America's Families

Under current federal tax rules, if student debts are cancelled, millions of families will get blindsided by a staggering tax bill on those debts – making it "out of the frying pan, into the fire" for cash-strapped families.

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The Quixotic Rise of Russell Brand

When Fox News hosts decided to attack Russell Brand's "Newsnight" appearance, they all but released the genie.

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Introducing The Next System Project

It's time to face the depth of the systemic crisis – to explore genuine alternatives and new models, and to debate what it will take to move our country to a very different place.

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Here Are All the Athletes, Celebrities, and CEOs Joining the Indiana Backlash

The state is reeling from a PR crisis since Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which will give businesses the option to discriminate against LGBT customers on religious grounds.

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Columbia Students Launch Divestment Campaign To Get Money Out Of Prisons

Columbia Prison Divest pressured the university to dump $8 million in Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison company, as well as shares in other behemoths of the private security industry.

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