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Economy / Business
The Retired General Who Stopped a Wall Street Coup
General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.
Sick of Shady Banks? Get a Loan from the Post Office!
Payday lenders extort poor and rural Americans. One solution? Your friendly neighborhood post office.
The Moral Revolution America Needs
Poor people of all races are shifting the national conversation on poverty and race from "right vs. left" to "right vs. wrong."
Ben Carson: Fighting Trump’s War on the Poor
Somehow a trillion-dollar tax giveaway is no issue for the deficit, but modest housing assistance for America's poorest people has to go.
Who’s Paying Hush Money Now?
Several corporations were caught giving money to a company used by Trump's personal attorney to pay hush money.
Congress Made It Harder to Give Teachers Raises
Under the new GOP tax law, states that pay teachers a living wage subsidize states that pay them poorly.
Adjuncts of the World, Unite!
I used to live in Flint and now I teach. Today's adjunct professors have loads in common with yesterday's factory workers.