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Case Study on Alpine Steel: Prison Industry Subsidized by Taxpayers to Compete with Local Businesses Fails Spectacularly

by CMD — October 9, 2013 - 5:01am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Economy, Ethics, Labor, Lobbying

    • -- by Bob Sloan, Guest Contributor

    "The taxpayers have been left holding the bag.... As a result of this I think there is going to be a lot more oversight."

    Those were statements made by Nevada Assemblyman James Ohrenschall in an interview on Vegas Inc. September 21. Mr. Ohrenschall is the former chairman of the Legislature's Interim Finance Committee on Industrial Programs. At the time of that interview, the IFC Committee was meeting to investigate facts that prompted his concerns.

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    USDA's Reckless Plan to Privatize Food Safety

    by Jill Richardson — September 17, 2013 - 6:19am
  • Topics: Food Safety, Food, Food Rights Network, Outsourcing America Exposed, Politics

    • My friend Jim, a farmer, jokes about bringing a bowl of manure and a spoon to the farmers' markets where he sells his beef. "My beef has no manure in it, but you can add some," he'd like to tell his customers.

    I'm sure you'd pass on manure as a condiment. But unless you're a vegetarian or you slaughter your own meat, you may have eaten it. And if the USDA moves forward with its plan to make a pilot program for meat inspection more widespread, this problem can only get worse.

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    The Media's Disgraceful Acquiescence to Larry Summers' White House Boosters

    by PRW Staff — September 12, 2013 - 6:21am
  • Topics: Economy, Real Economy Project

    • -- by Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research

    Selling Larry Summers as the successor to Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve Board is a tough job. The basic problem is that Summers has a dismal track record to overcome, while his main competitor, Janet Yellen, the current vice-chair, has an outstanding record.

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    The Other NRA: How the Insidiously Powerful Restaurant Lobby Makes Sure Fast-Food Workers Get Poverty Wages and Have to Work While Sick

    by PRW Staff — September 5, 2013 - 7:51am
  • Topics: Food, Real Economy Project

    • -- by Steven Rosenfeld

    While thousands of fast-food workers were preparing to walk off their jobs earlier this summer to seek raises to $15 an hour, the industry's corporate lobbyist, the National Restaurant Association, was celebrating a string of political victories blocking state minimum wage increases and preempting local sick day laws.

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    Executive Excess 2013: Bailed out, Booted, and Busted

    by PRW Staff — August 29, 2013 - 8:22am

    -- by Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger, Sam Pizzigati—Institute for Policy Studies

    Nearly 40 percent of the CEOs on the highest-paid lists from the past 20 years were eventually "bailed out, booted, or busted."

    This 20th anniversary Executive Excess report examines the "performance" of the 241 corporate chief executives who have ranked among America's 25 highest-paid CEOs in one or more of the past 20 years.

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    What the Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do with War on Syria

    by PRW Staff — August 28, 2013 - 7:37am
  • Topics: War / Peace

    • -- by Norman Solomon, RootsAction.org

    Every president who wants to launch another war can't abide whistleblowers. They might interfere with the careful omissions, distortions and outright lies of war propaganda, which requires that truth be held in a kind of preventative detention.

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    Stop the CEO March on Washington

    by PRW Staff — August 23, 2013 - 7:17am
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed

    • -- by Scott Klinger, Institute for Policy Studies

    Millions of people acting together can still beat millions of dollars.

    In these closing days of summer, a growing number of news stories have interrupted our final days at the beach and asked us to pause and remember the 50th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington that occurred on August 28, 1963.

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    The Tiniest New Technology Poses Unanswered Safety Questions

    by Jill Richardson — August 12, 2013 - 6:21am
  • Topics: Food Safety, Corporations, Food Rights Network, Health

    • You might use nanotechnology in the sunscreens you squirt or lather on your kids. You might lick your lips and taste it in your favorite lip-gloss. You might even eat it in your Jell-O pudding. But is it safe?

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    ALEC's Chicago Conference Incites Protest, Multiple Arrests

    by PRW Staff — August 6, 2013 - 11:25pm
  • Topics: Activism, ALEC Exposed

    • -- by Ashlee Rezin, published from Progress Illinois

    Six people were arrested Monday when protesters descended upon the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago to push back against the impending visit of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), whose conservative agenda, activists say, promotes policies and legislation that protects corporate interests and disenfranchises workers and voters.

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    A Book Is Better Than a Box of Chocolates

    by PRW Staff — July 19, 2013 - 8:33am

    -- by Ralph Nader

    Summer is an ideal season for jolting your mind into action by expanding your reading horizons. So shut off the computer and the television, put away the various gadgets, close your email and pick up a good book. There are plenty of entertaining choices for your reading pleasure, but the following titles are ones that I have enjoyed. They all address the serious pursuit of justice/happiness side of the written word.

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