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This Week in OtherWords: June 11, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: June 11, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower marvels at a British hedge fund titan's luxury chicken coop and Jill Richardson praises the EU's robust regulations for keeping its food safer to eat than ours. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...

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This Week in OtherWords: June 4, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: June 4, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Mary Anne Hitt applauds the Obama administration's effort to reduce climate-damaging emissions and Raul A. Reyes urges GOP leaders to stop blocking a bill that would give undocumented immigrants who grew up in the United States a path to...

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This Week in OtherWords: May 28, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: May 28, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Fran Teplitz questions the Justice Department's reluctance to prosecute banks and bankers for their misdeeds that triggered the financial crisis and Sam Pizzigati applauds California and Rhode Island state lawmakers for taking steps to rein in...

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This Week in OtherWords: May 21. 2014

This Week in OtherWords: May 21. 2014

This week in OtherWords,  I explain why thousands of Lindy Hoppers are celebrating Frankie Manning's legacy, Martha Burk weighs in on the growth of low-wage jobs for women, and Joel Kendrick puts the latest sports LGBT milestone into perspective. Do you want to make...

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This Week in OtherWords: May 14, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: May 14, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson applauds a comedian's take on Pom Wonderful's deceptive marketing ploys and Jim Hightower tells the story of the latest runaway CEO pay poster child. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords?...

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This Week in OtherWords: May 7, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: May 7, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Steve Cobble explains why the GOP's prospects aren't as bright as they may appear and Alex Xourias discusses the growing resegregation of America's public schools. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from OtherWords?...

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This Week in OtherWords: April 30, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 30, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Sarah Anderson suggests a way to protect the economy from the hazards of high-frequency trading and William A. Collins and I discuss the resegregation of public schools in light of the upcoming 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown ruling. Do...

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This Week in OtherWords:  April 23, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 23, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Marjorie Elizabeth Wood explains how taxpayers help foot the cost of massive pay packages for restaurant-industry execs who lobby against raising the minimum wage and Jim Hightower weighs in on the latest skirmish in the war on voting. Do you...

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This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 16, 2014

This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson tells "vegangelicals" they'd become better missionaries for a healthy-eating lifestyle if they just stopped preaching and Amanda Ufheil-Somers suggests that the United States and Saudi Arabia end what she calls a "loveless...

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This Week in OtherWords: April 9, 2014

This Week in OtherWords: April 9, 2014

This week, we're running our annual OtherWords Tax Day special edition. Chuck Collins and Bob Lord explain how billionaires are bypassing the estate tax and what's wrong with that. Jim Hightower and cartoonist Khalil Bendib skewer Caterpillar Inc. for an offshore tax...

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