economy
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Study shows working families choose between shelter, medical care and food
According to a February 2010 study by Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the country, one in eight…
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This country is not a ‘cash-strapped family’
If an earthquake had struck the United States, causing the loss of 7 million jobs, it would never occur to…
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More on the AIG bailout: taxpayers cover big banks’ gambling debts
September 2008. Insurance giant AIG is on the verge of collapse. Politicians, the Fed, economists and pundits flood the airwaves…
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Chicago workers hit streets to march for jobs
Hundreds of people marched through downtown Chicago on Jan. 18 to stop job, school, transit and budget cuts. Transit workers,…
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Bailed-out banks give out record bonuses while workers suffer
In the midst of a severe economic crisis when millions of people are still reeling from job losses, home foreclosures,…
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Cash-strapped colleges favoring higher income students
According to U.S. News and World Report, hundreds of colleges across the country will be favoring admission of high-income students…
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L.A. truck drivers bear burden of environmental regulations
On Jan.1, a Port of Long Beach ban on truck engines older than 1994 came into effect. The rule also…
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What’s behind the Bradley Birkenfeld conviction?
Bradley Birkenfeld exposed the largest case of offshore tax evasion in history, and then was promptly sent to jail. Capitalist…
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Amid growing poverty, H&M and Wal-Mart destroy unsold clothing
In a city where winter temperatures drop well below freezing and some 39,000 people spend their nights in homeless shelters,…
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Indiana slashes education funding in middle of school year
As government officials, economists and newscasters proclaim that the economic crisis is coming to a close or it is over,…
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