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“They Get You Coming And Going”: In America, Being Poor Can Be An Expensive...
Today I came across this very interesting, albeit depressing, bit of data. It’s an analysis by a travel site called Hopper that shows that it costs more to fly in states that have the lowest median...
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“Betraying His Ignorance”: Mitch McConnell Blames The Slow Recovery On...
On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Republicans in the 114th Congress will focus on blocking environmental and healthcare regulations: “We...
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“Stupid Pills”: The Politics of Fraudulent Dietary Supplements
One pill makes you smarter. One pill makes you thin. One pill makes you happy. Another keeps you energized. And so what if tests conducted by scientists in New York and Canada have found that the...
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“Why So Many Americans Feel So Powerless”: Most Working People Have No...
A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule and his pay. “They just don’t care,” he said. A traveler I met in...
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“Who Says Crime Doesn’t Pay?”: The Bottom Line Is Crime Can Actually Pay — If...
Hey, can we all just stop complaining that our government coddles Wall Street’s big money-grubbing banks? Sure, they went belly-up and crashed our economy with their frauds, rigged casino games, and...
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