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Domino’s workers fired for protesting wage theft get their jobs back
by Laura Clawson via Think Progress The 25 Manhattan Domino's workers who lost their jobs after protesting being forced to work below minimum wage will be back on the job this weekend, thanks to an agreement with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman....
Mr. Potter and the Commies of Bedford Falls
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Why the Third Way hates Sen. Elizabeth Warren
by Hunter The obsessive centrists of the punditverse are abuzz with praise for supposed centrist Democratic organization Third Way and their grumbling op-ed condemnation of Democratic liberal populism in abstract and "economic populists" like Sen. Elizabeth Warren in...
When Outsourcing Public Services to Private Companies Goes Wrong
By Mike Ludwig The point of carpooling is to save some gas money while reducing traffic congestion and air pollution, but in Virginia, taxpayers could be on the hook when commuters try to do just that. The Australian company Transurban recently teamed up with a...
Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway That’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
by Mary Anne Hitt Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive...
Lynwood Lewis for Senate
Lynwood Lewis, a lawyer and Democratic state delegate from Accomack County, makes an economic pitch in his television spot that begins airing Wednesday in Hampton Roads. The ad highlights his work with lawmakers in both parties to promote space launches from NASA's...
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How ALEC Serves As A ‘Dating Service’ For Politicians And Corporations
via NPR ALEC is sort of almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians, and many of America's biggest companies. It brings them...
Everything they say about SNAP is wrong
by Paul Rosenberg Hilary Hoynes is a University of California at Berkeley economist who wrote a particularly notable paper last year. Instead of increasing dependency, as conservative critics have repeatedly claimed, Hoyen’s paper showed that, for women at least, food...
ALEC Stands Its Ground
By Dana Milbank “What you fundamentally need to know about this organization is it’s completely legislator driven,” said senior director of public affairs Bill Meierling. Uh-huh. And ALEC is proving that by keeping reporters from the rooms where the legislators are...
