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Snapshots of the super rich and the rest of us
June 22, 2012CEO pay at America's seven largest banks averaged 100 times the median U.S. household income in 1989 -- and over 500 times that median in 2007.
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Today in history: Musicians targeted in anti-Communist witch-hunt
June 22, 2012On June 22, 1950, renowned musicians/performers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Pete Seeger and Artie Shaw were labeled as suspected "Communist sympathizers" in the infamous publication "Red Channels."
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Pass the Student Loan Forgiveness Act
June 21, 2012Financial Aid Office, Business Office, Bursar: those are just some of the names that college students dread when it comes time to pay tuition.
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Labor and people’s history: Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner murdered in Mississippi
June 21, 2012On June 21st, 1964 in Mississippi civil rights activists Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner went missing.
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Greed and the pain in Spain
June 19, 2012The European Union's response to the economic chaos gripping the continent seems a combination of profound delusion, and what British a reporter called "sado-monetarism" -- endless cutbacks, savage austerity, and widespread layoffs.
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