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The Most Radical Idea For a Minimum Wage Hike Yet Is Being Floated in Canada
The news: Academics and activists are floating around an ambitious plan to guarantee a national income level of 20,000 Canadian dollars (around $18,750) - replacing social welfare programs entirely
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The Economics of Star Trek
I promise this is about Star Trek. Sort of. Bear with me a moment. I've been reading a lot about robots lately. When I read about robots, and the future, I can't help but think about it in economic
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For the Maryland 80 percent, still time to get off the bench
Among the 80 percent of registered Republicans and Democrats who stayed away from Maryland's primary was Sally Staehle of Baltimore. She wrote me a letter to explain why she took a pass on voting ...
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Why does everyone have to work?
The universal basic income A podcast by Steven Sumpter His blog post: http://tinyurl.com/ktt3wvg Source of audio: http://tinyurl.com/mp3yhl7
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Thank NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden - RootsAction
A whistleblower has boldly stepped forward to expose the National Security Agency's vast spying on our phone records and online communications.
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Denials Are Not Enough
The Guardian and The Washington Post recently published slides that indicate that the US government's National Security Agency (NSA) is engaged in mass surveillance of users around the world through
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The U.S. Has The Most Expensive And Least Effective Health Care In The Developed
By Tara Culp-Ressler " The U.S. Has The Most Expensive And Least Effective Health Care In The Developed World" Share: CREDIT: Shutterstock For the fifth time in a row, the United States has been ...
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Democrats Are Killing a $15 Miniumum Wage in Providence
Following Seattle and other cities, the Providence City Council Thursday voted unanimously to place a $15 wage referendum on the ballot. The measure applies only to large hotels, and polling ...
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Court Rules Warrantless Cell Tracking Unconstitutional
MIAMI (AP) - Investigators must obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to obtain cellphone tower tracking data that is widely used as evidence to show suspects were in the vicinity of a ...
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Think urban hipsters are the only ones consuming less? Think again
Photo by Jack Newton Think young urban hipsters are the only ones consuming less and sharing more? Think again. In a recent post, Fast Company pointed to a new global study of over 30,000 ...
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xkcd: 4.5 Degrees
BTC 1NfBXWqseXc9rCBc3Cbbu6HjxYssFUgkH6 We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from ...
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Can Big Oil Retake Richmond, California?
In 2008, progressives won control of City Hall. Now, as elections loom, Chevron wants to take it back. As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the ...
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Why Northerners Can't Cope With Outrageously High Food Prices
For those in Canada's south, seeing the price of food in Nunavut induced instant sticker shock. However $105 cases of water, $28 heads of cabbage and $55 boxes of infant formula are only one piece ...
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Kshama Sawant speaking at a Green Party event at Left Forum
Now, For the Future
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In Baltimore, an ex-offender is in the business of second chances
BALTIMORE - Chris Wilson's photo album is a marvel of cut and paste. Only on close examination, when the jagged edges around each image become visible, is it obvious that these are photographs of ...
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Someone finally polled the 1% - And it's not pretty
On May 22, The Campaign for America's Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was Elizabeth Warren. The conference confronted the meme that the US is a ...
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A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens - review
At the Labour conference of 2005, Tony Blair made one of his most fascinating speeches as party leader and prime minister: a tribute to the cleansing hurricane of globalisation, from a man who had ...
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Get ready, robots are about to steal your job
Are robots stealing our jobs? Is human labor destined to become obsolete? This is a scary topic that has been debated for more than 100 years. Economists even created a term for this-the Luddite ...
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ExtremeTech
Amazon isn't stopping at its initial 1,000 Kiva robots, with Bezos promising as many as 10,000 will be hard at work by the end of the year. That pales compared to the plans Foxconn has, likely ...
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Leaked photos show immigrant children packed in crowded Texas border facilities
President Barack Obama has directed an effort, lead by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to provide resources and “humanitarian relief to affected children,†which is a “pr...
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Updated: BREAKING: Jury awards $3 million in first fracking case
When you present the evidence to six people who know nothing about fracking, they find fracking guilty. I wrote a diary on Daily Kos when Lisa Parr's doctor found drilling chemicals in her blood and
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Baltimore dock union facing takeover amid contract talks
After an investigation that revealed missing money and questionable financial practices, officials of a national longshoremen's union are considering seizing control of a Baltimore chapter - a move
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Cartoon: Let's talk about checks
(Click to enlarge) The Paycheck Fairness Act, recently torpedoed in the Senate, addressed some glaring problems that have generated less discussion than they should. This useful post ("Why Do Bosses
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Cowboys and Indians Keystone XL protest - 1 of 16
Shane Red Hawk of the Sioux Tribe from South Dakota (center) rides a horse with other Native Americans, farmers, ranchers and cowboys, during "Reject and Protect" rally.
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Boomers' bust: Number of California adults moving in with parents explodes
A shocking reminder of the Great Recession of 2008 is evident by the over-67 percent increase in the number of Californian Baby Boomers who have been forced to move back in with their aged parents ...