The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Pay to Prey: How U.S. Governors Are Helping Outsource Public Services
Large corporations are the winners and taxpayers are the losers when transparency, accountability and the public interest are sold out to for-profit firms.
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How the Waltons of Walmart Are Obstructing Our Clean Energy Future
The nation's richest family is funding nearly two dozen organizations working to roll back renewable energy policies, while pushing for regulations aimed at hindering the growth of rooftop solar power.
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UN Officials Call Detroit’s Mass Water Shutoffs "Human Rights Violation"
Out of her $672 monthly disability check, Rochelle McCaskill spends $600 rent – leaving her unable to pay the city’s water bills, which have skyrocketed to more than twice the national average.
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How Wells Fargo Fraudulently Foreclosed on This Florida Homeowner
Florida has the highest foreclosure rate in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2014, and also has a "foreclosure king" who is now disbarred for his failure to oversee employees accused of carrying out wrongful foreclosures.
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Why Are We Letting Pharmaceutical Corporations Get Away With Robbery?
Drug and device makers paid doctors $380 million in speaking and consulting fees over a five-month period last year – and saw a healthy return on their investment.
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Outraged English Towns: Save Lollipop Patrols and Keep Our Children Safe
Punishing local cuts are leaving communities up in arms as the removal of vital school road patrol service – known as the lollipop ladies – could go into effect.
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14 Americans Made More Money than the Food Stamp Budget for 50 Million
So little of our national wealth is going to feed people or provide jobs and instead, the richest Americans vastly increased their wealth this past year. But what vaulted these individuals to the top?
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Chevron, With $3 Million and False "News" Site, Tries To Buy Richmond Elections
The oil giant, with $21.4 billion in 2013 revenue, is trying to buy upcoming municipal elections in Richmond that pit a pro-Chevron bloc of city council members against an anti-Chevron bloc.
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Anti-Fracking Protests Go Global As Europeans Refuse Corporate Trade Pact
Thousands marched in dozens of countries last weekend to reject fracking while more than 1,000 actions occurred across Europe in opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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French Economist Wins Nobel Prize For Work "Taming Powerful Firms"
The 61-year-old began his influential studies on regulation and oligopolies in the 1980s – and last year scrutinized the pay and motivation structure in banking and other industries.
