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New Graphic Book About Democracy In Greece

New Graphic Book About Democracy In Greece
Democracy book A team of talented artists and writers deliver a new graphic novel that presents extraordinary characters and bold colors in an effort to offer a sprightly explanation of the abstract concept of “Democracy” tracing its birthplace to its ...
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How Y Combinator non-profit alum DemocracyOS hopes to upgrade democracy
Academic and activist Larry Lessig might not be the next president of the United States, but his entry in the race helps bring across the point that democracy should and can be fixed. In that sense, his message is not much different from the mission of ...
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The Democracy Project at SOU: An Opportunity for Learning and Leadership
Editor's note: This is the first of six weekly installments of "Dispatches from India" about Southern Oregon University Honors College students' trip to India this month to learn more about democracy in action. When Southern Oregon University launched ...
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Hillary Clinton's Mistake on Glass-Steagall

Hillary Clinton's Mistake on Glass-Steagall
“The idea is pretty simple behind this one,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said a few days ago, explaining her bill to resurrect Glass-Steagall. “If banks want to engage in high-risk trading — they can go for it, but they can't get access to ensured ...
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Moyers, James "Jim Jack" Edwin (Collegedale)
James (Jim, Jack) Edwin Moyers, 91, of Collegedale, Tennessee, died peacefully at home on Thursday, August 27, 2015. He was born June 6, 1924 in New Orleans, LA and moved to Graysville, TN with his mother and three siblings at the age of 3. His family ...
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Fire at World's End
In addition to the disappearing snowpack and severe drought, the iconic glaciers of the Olympic Mountains are melting rapidly, which will likely someday spell doom for the park's rivers and its vibrant ecology. According to Bill Baccus, a scientist at ...
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Zephyr Teachout on Getting Big Money Out of Politics
[An approach like that] attracts interesting bedfellows. I actually think the more exciting cross-partisanship happens when you're just really honest and you find out that you just connect on some core issues. Watch Bill Moyers's interview with Zephyr ...
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Latest Government Statistics News

Urban development ministry allows installation of cell phone towers on ...
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) statistics, call drops have doubled in the last one year and are now four times higher than the permissible limit. The government has been accusing the service providers of ducking the required ...
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Government expects economy to grow by 6% this year
The Central Statistics Office also revised up growth for the first quarter to 2.1 per cent, putting the increase in gross domestic product (GDP) for the year to June at 6.7 per cent, more than twice the level achieved by Spain, the next strongest euro ...
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A pair of court decisions bring good news for FOIA users
First, agencies must waive or reduce fees “if disclosure of the [requested] information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and is not ...
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Latest Government Statistics News

Forex Market: USD/CAD daily trading forecast
Job openings are part of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which gathers data from about 16 400 non-farm establishments including retailers and manufacturers, as well as federal, state, and local government entities in the 50 states ...
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Moody's: Chinese regional and local government debt update shows credit ...
Sydney, September 02, 2015 -- Moody's Investors Service says that statistics released on Chinese regional and local government (RLG) debt show a worsening of the RLGs' credit metrics, such as their debt-to-GDP and debt-to-revenue. On 29 August 2015, ...
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Ewart: Oilpatch layoffs confirm recession more than Statistics Canada
Their pink slips — the latest among more than 35,000 issued in the oil and gas industry this year — tell the story of a faltering Canadian economy far more effectively than the government statistics that confirmed two consecutive quarters of negative ...
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