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Big Business hiding more of its money
August 17, 2011The U.S. collects less in corporate taxes as a share of GDP than 24 out of 26 industrialized countries, ahead of only Chile and Mexico.
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Emergency manager cuts endanger Detroit schools
August 17, 2011Ten thousand Detroit Public Schools teachers and support staff are quickly finding out how undemocratic Michigan's emergency manager law is.
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Groups demand Bank of America stop foreclosures, pay taxes
August 17, 2011BOA made $10 billion in profits last year. However, they paid nothing in taxes.
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Trumpet-makers on strike get a brass band boost
August 17, 2011Facing cuts in wages and health care as well as total elimination of their pensions, workers at the highly profitable Conn-Selmer plant went on strike.
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Steelworkers “stand up, fight back” (with video)
August 17, 2011"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
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