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Justice Department Set To Prosecute Wall Street Crooks For 2008 Financial Crisis
It’s about time we started bringing these criminals to justice.
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Seattle Firm's Profits Double After Raising Minimum Salary To $70,000
In April, Dan Price, CEO of Seattle-based credit card payment firm Gravity Payments announced that he would raise the minimum annual pay for all the company’s employees to $70,000. The announcement put Price at the center of a media firestorm, attracting a wave of inane conservative criticism over the move to give workers a living…
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Obama To GOP: I'll Veto Your Defense Bill Unless It Closes Gitmo & Stops Giveaways To Military Contractors
Obama will refuse to sign this year’s NDAA into law unless Guantanamo is closed and caps on domestic spending are lifted.
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Hypocrite Paul Ryan: I Deserve Paid Family Leave, But American Workers Don't
Ryan has declared he “cannot and will not give up my family time,” even though he’s spent his whole career making it harder for American workers to spend time with their families.
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Altar Welfare: Churches Steal $71 Billion A Year From Taxpayers, Spend Little On Charity
There is a lot of hypocrisy going on in Washington, but none worse than what’s perpetrated on the American public by Republicans in the name of religion and vague appeals to “fiscal responsibility”. The Republican Party has the mendacity to stand in the way of legislation that would close hidden corporate and personal tax loopholes…
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Tea Party Republicans Left Dazed As Obama Cuts Bush's Deficit By $1 Trillion
When conservatives want to scare people into thinking we can’t afford basic social programs, there’s one thing they love to harp on: the public deficit. How can we guarantee healthcare to the people when we have so much debt?, they argue. But while that reasoning may be compelling to those whose worldview is filtered through…
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New York Launches Investigation Into Martin Shkreli's AIDS Drug Price-Gouging
Martin Shkreli, the CEO who jacked up the price of an AIDS drug by 5000%, is now under investigation by the NY Attorney General’s office.
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Wage Slavery: Average American Must Work 94 Hrs/Week To Make Ends Meet
President Obama and Democrats have been calling on lawmakers to raise the minimum wage for American workers for years. Advocates have long said that the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is not a livable wage for a single person, let alone a family, to survive on. A new study has found that there…
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Ben Bernanke: I'm Ditching The Republican Party Because Of Their 'Stupid Economic Conspiracies'
Ben Bernanke, former Bush appointee to Federal Reserve Chairman and former Princeton Economics professor slammed modern Republican economic policies in his new memoir. According to Bernanke, a life-long Republican, the far-right extremism that has taken over the Republican Party in the name of extreme conservatism: “It’s the stupid economics.…[they] saw inflation where it did not…