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A Happy Labor Day—Really
(Photo: AP/Lynne Sladky)(Photo: AP/Lynne Sladky) Protesters, part of the national Fight for 15 movement, applaud in support of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour at a church in Miami in April. An...
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Refugee Blues
(Photo: AP/Rex Features)(Photo: AP/Rex Features) Hungarian police stop a train in Bicske, Hungary, that was carrying refugees from Budapest to the Austrian border, on September 4. This article...
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Missing Workers: What the Unemployment Rate Isn't Saying About the Recovery
Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press via APDan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP In this April 2, 2015, photo, a crowd gathers for a huge 15-county job fair at The Colonnade in Ringgold,...
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The Larger Meaning of Jeremy Corbyn
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View ArticleThe Fed Will Continue to Support the Recovery—But For How Long?
This afternoon, the Federal Reserve announced that it will keep interest rates near zero for the time being, maintaining its critical support for the sluggish economic recovery. The decision came as a...
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A Desperate Scott Walker Brings Anti-Labor Crusade to National Stage
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View ArticleOur Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
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The Labor Prospect: Pitching the Pope
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America’s Collapsing Trade Initiatives
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Why the Poverty Rate Isn't Going Down
AP Photo/Seth Perlman, FileAP Photo/Seth Perlman, File In this Jan. 15, 2013 file photo, Fred Drake helps prepare food supplies to be distributed to people and families in need at the Grace Lutheran...
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Why the DOJ Needs to Hold Individuals Responsible for Corporate Crime
AP Photo/Michael SohnAP Photo/Michael Sohn Volkswagen ornaments sit in a box in a scrap yard in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, September 23, 2015. I t’s a bad time to be a Volkswagen executive. You’ve...
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The European Prospect (Fall Preview)
Rex Features via AP ImagesRex Features via AP Images Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and Alexis Tsipras at the European Union Emergency Summit, EU Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2015 This...
View ArticleHedge Funds: The Ultimate Absentee Landlords (Fall Preview)
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Et Tu, Janet Yellen?
(Photo: AP/Jessica Hill)(Photo: AP/Jessica Hill) Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Thursday, September 24, a week after the Fed decided to not...
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What’s Next for the TPP: Clyde Prestowitz in Conversation with David Dayen
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View ArticleThe Foreign Policy Debate Missing From the Democratic Race
Liberals may have snickered at the recent Twitter battle between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush over George W. Bush’s national-security record, a debate CNBC said was “so dumb it’s genius.” But as childish...
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Not Yet an Intifada
AP Photo/Ariel SchalitAP Photo/Ariel Schalit Israeli border police officer search a Palestinian youth at Damascus Gate of the Jerusalem's Old City in Jerusalem's ahead of Friday prayers, Friday,...
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Who Will Be Hillary's Economic Team?
AP Photo/Charlie NeibergallAP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Saturday, October 24,...
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Raising Rates: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
(Photo: AP/Andrew Harnik)(Photo: AP/Andrew Harnik) Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on banking supervision and regulation on November...
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Bibi's Fertilizer
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisAP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Center for American Progress, Tuesday, November 10, 2015, in Washington. “ My...
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