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Nearly half of US unemployed have given up looking for a job
Nearly half of unemployed Americans are on the verge of completely giving up on looking for a job, but they remain optimistic they will find a job they really want within the next six months, a new
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The Increasingly Unequal States of America
NEW* Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price, The Increasingly Unequal States of America , Washington, DC: Economic Analysis and Research Network, February 19, 2014. Analyzing income inequality by state ...
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US utility's control systems hit by advanced cyber attack - DHS
An advanced group of hackers recently attacked a US public utility, compromising its control system network without affecting the utility's operations, according to the US Department of Homeland ...
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Virtual Tour Of The Ukranian Protest Site In Kyiv
Kyiv is relatively calm now, so it's just the right time to study Maidan in detail. Almost everybody has heard that word, but not everybody imagines how everything works here. Now the protesters ...
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Why our monetary system contributes to the gap between rich and poor
Tweet We have a monetary system in which loans create money and repayments destroy money. So at any one time the amount of money in the economy is approximately equal to the amount of outstanding ...
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Ukraine's currency the hryvnia in free fall
Ukraine's currency went into free fall Wednesday as its previously gradual decline picked up further pace. The dollar was quoted above 9.00 against the hryvnia for the first time since Feb. 23 ...
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Self-Reliance Podcast Episode 1: Local Self-Reliance in the Modern Economy
What is the role of local self-reliance in the modern economy? As world travel, global commerce, and communications across the oceans bring us closer together, the role of localism changes. In our ...
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Rise of the Libertarians
10 reasons why Slate, Salon and the progressive media are afraid A lot of people are messing with libertarianism. We get it. If you see an alternative worldview gaining currency as your own is ...
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Daily Kos
Yeah, looks like things can always get crazier: A group of House Republicans has received a mysterious threat in recent weeks: an anonymous email that promises political retribution for those who ...
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Rand Paul files suit against Obama, NSA Wednesday
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) and Matt Kibbe, president of the conservative organizing group FreedomWorks, are filing a class action lawsuit against President Obama and other members of his ...
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What Google really means when it calls Android 'open'
Google loves to woo app makers to Android by whispering the sweet sounds of 'openness' and 'open source' in their ears. While that's not entirely accurate, they heed the call for good reasons. Read
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Baltimore2
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States. We provide thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790.
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their ...
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Paul Taylor
Author Paul Taylor explains why it's hard to start a generational war from your childhood bedroom. Air Date: March 10, 2014
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Weev Is Still in Jail Because the Government Doesn't Know What Hacking Is
"This was a hack," the prosecutor said, addressing a trio of skeptical-looking judges in the US Third District Court of Appeals. The government was restating its case that, by obtaining private ...
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NASA: Civilization headed for collapse
A model based study is full of gloom and doom: Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? It makes our book Global Insanity: How Homo sapiens Lost Touch with ...
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Dogecoin's First 100 Days Were Better Than Bitcoin's First 1,000
Illustration by the author Today, Dogecoin is 100 days old. If the altcoin is truly headed for the moon, then it's already made some pretty decent progress. The alternative cryptocurrency, and the ...
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How Many Minimum Wage Hours Does It Take To Afford A Two-Bedroom Apartment In
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Reduce the Workweek to 30 Hours
Anna Coote is head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation in London. She is a co-editor of " Time on Our Side" and co-author of " 21 Hours." We used to send children down mines, sack women
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NSA surveillance program reaches 'into the past' to retrieve, replay phone calls
The voice interception program, called MYSTIC, began in 2009. Its RETRO tool, short for "retrospective retrieval," and related projects reached full capacity against the first target nation in 2011
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Which Companies Buy the Election Results in Your State? This Handy Map Reveals
The fairy tale of Democracy goes that government is the will of the people embodied by representatives voted in and out of office in free and fair elections. Well, the fairy tale is over - those ...
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Ukraine And The Pathology Of The Liberal Worldview
Reading the March 2 editorial in the New York Times on the so-called revolution in Ukraine, I couldn't help but marvel at how easily elite opinion makers in the U.S. can call for the use of public ...
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Special Issue of JET: Hughes, Walker, Campa & Danaher on Tech Unemployment and
The special issue of the Journal of Evolution and Technology is published and has nine essays on technological unemployment and the basic income guarantee, six of them by IEETers.
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Using Metadata to Catch a Whistleblower | Ghosts of Tom Joad - Peter Van Buren
Using Metadata to Catch a Whistleblower With Obama set to announce on Friday his plans to amend the electronic surveillance program at the National Security Agency, it is a good time to look more ...
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How Google, Apple & The Biggest Tech Companies Colluded to Fix Workers' Wages
Exclusive: Pando Daily Senior Editor Mark Ames describes how his team uncovered secret internal memos between dozens of tech companies to fix wages for more than a million employees