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EPI becoming major voice in national discourse on economy
September 4, 2015Larry Rubin of People's World interviewed Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, the premier think tank focusing on the economic condition of low- and middle-income American families.
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Obama’s Alaska visit highlights climate already changed
September 4, 2015Each particular battle is but one part of the longer struggle to transform our energy economy, our economy as a whole, how things are produced, packaged, and distributed.
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Report explores why unions have few female leaders
September 4, 2015When women run organizing drives, the drives are more likely to succeed; they show women - especially minority-group women - benefit the most from being unionists.
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Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons
September 3, 2015Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.
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Decolonize the land: Native people welcome Mt. Denali name change
September 3, 2015President Obama announced that his administration would change the name of Mt. McKinley to its original Indigenous name, Denali, a word that means "High One" in Athabascan.
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