‘A Policy Straight Out of The Handmaid’s Tale’
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How Radical Republicans Punish Poor People
From Trying to Gut Medicare to Overhauling Government Agencies, the Party Targets the Country’s Most Vulnerable
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Trump Declares War on the Poor
Republicans Create Budget Deficits and Make People Barely Scraping By to Pay for Them
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Reparations for Bias, Slavery Gain Momentum
Evanston, Ill., Establishes a Fund for Black Citizens, Other Cities Consider Similar Moves
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Inflation Hawks: Never Right, But Never In Doubt
Right on Cue, Conservatives Cry Wolf Over Deficit Spending … Just Like the Last Time and the Time Before That
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Workers Insist the $15 Minimum Wage Fight Isn’t Over
Labor Groups Angry that Biden and Democrats Didn’t Push for the New Base Pay in the $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Legislation
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Exclusive: Trump’s Secret Plan to Gut the Federal Workforce
Failed Effort Would Have Removed Job Protections for 84,000 High-Ranking Civil Servants, Make Their Employment Subject to Presidential Whims
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The Sad Truth Behind Some Terrific New Income Statistics
Expect Most Media to Report Just the Good Numbers, Not the Real Story
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Who Made Joe Manchin ‘The Decider’?
When Every Senate Votes Counts, the West Virginia Democrat May as Well Be a Republican
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The 1.5 Million Child Slaves Behind Your Chocolate Bar
Lawsuit Cites Global Candy Companies; Seeks Freedom, Compensation for Children Forced into Dangerous Work on Cocoa Farms By Jillian S. Ambroz Next time you take a bite of a chocolate bar, consider the small hands that farmed the cocoa beans. Industrial food heavyweights like Nestlé USA, Hershey and MARS Inc., rely on cocoa grown in…