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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Obamacare Upheld By U.S. Supreme Court – Now What About America's 35 Million Uninsured?
“What the United States should do is join every other major nation and recognize that healthcare is a right of citizenship,” said presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who advocates a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
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Stiglitz: How Inequality Is Killing the American Dream – And What We Can Do About It
The U.S. is gradually, and painfully, struggling to come to terms with certain contradictions about the enormity of inequalities marking our society.
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Can Anti-Corruption Candidate Rick Weiland Upend South Dakota's Senate Race?
Toss-up races like Kansas and South Dakota may be the ones that decide whether or not Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate.
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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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Walmart, World's Largest Company, Cuts Healthcare to 30,000 Employees
The retail behemoth gave lawmakers a lesson in economics Tuesday when it disclosed it would no longer offer health insurance to tens of thousands of part-time employees.
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Lessons In Stopping Tax Inversion and Free-Riding Corporations
Companies that invert get all the benefits of operating in the U.S. – including purchases financed by taxpayers, while not supporting the government whose services, laws and workforce enable their profits.
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Inequality Is Not Inevitable: Rewriting Laws to Reverse A Politics of Greed
Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.
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Supreme Court to American Public: Corporations Are Your New Gods
Corporations are our new gods. “Some animals are more equal than others.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm
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Why's American-Style Health Care Being Pushed In Canada? Ask the Koch Brothers
A right-wing Canadian outfit funded by the Kochs wants to privatize the Canadian health care system – and Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now steering policy that way.
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This 32-Year-Old Woman Is Dead Because Florida Refused To Expand Medicaid
As many as 17,000 people will die directly as a result of their states refusing to expand Medicaid.
