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Exclusive: Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on …

Exclusive: Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on ...
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Dr. Jill Stein officially launches her campaign as a Green Party candidate for the 2016 presidential race. "I have a people-powered campaign," Stein notes. "I am running with the only national party that does not take ...
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Asia's richest man "disappointed" by Hong Kong democracy veto, but business ...
Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed the electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing the prospect of fresh protests in the financial hub after last year's massive "Occupy Central ...
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Report: Russia Is Biggest Antidemocracy Force
Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds. Russian ...
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Donald Trump says 'real' unemployment rate is 18 to 20 percent

Donald Trump says 'real' unemployment rate is 18 to 20 percent
We've previously debunked the notion that the government somehow cooks the books when it calculates the unemployment rate. But is there a legitimate statistic that reaches as high as 18 to 20 percent? (Trump's staff did not return inquiries from ...
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Morocco publishes first stats on sex workers after film causes stir
The Moroccan government published what is being hailed as the country's first official data on sex workers this week, addressing a problem that rights activists have long accused Rabat of ignoring, after a film on the lives of prostitutes drew the ire ...
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Where the Government Can Get Better Data
As the world grows ever better at gathering and making use of data, the question arises: Might the measurements and statistics that private businesses accumulate be used to help government statistical agencies that are under increasing budget pressure?
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Diversity Is the Lifeline for the Future of the Climate Movement

Diversity Is the Lifeline for the Future of the Climate Movement
Being a climate advocate is not for the weak of heart. The US is a safe haven for climate deniers. Instead of taking bold steps to reduce our carbon emissions, our elected officials focus on stunts like bringing in snowballs to Congress to claim there ...
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Bill Moyers: Can Journalism Survive in a Plutocracy?
The following remarks were made by Bill Moyers at the presentation of the Helen Bernstein Book Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The ceremony took place at the New York Public Library on May 26, 2015.
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Free Trade Agreements Fail Workers at Home — And Workers Abroad
From Bill Clinton to Barack Obama, Republican and Democratic presidents have pledged to workers that some new free trade scheme would protect Americans from unfair and immoral foreign competition. Clinton claimed the North American Free Trade ...
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What an Anti-Poverty Movement Looks Like (It's Not What You Think)
There's no point beating around this bush. An anti-poverty movement led by the middle and upper classes is doomed to failure. Equally, a partisan movement will never manage to get much done. That said, it's never a bad thing when people discuss these ...
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Latest Moral Hazard News

Environment Encyclical Is 'Well Intentioned, Deeply Flawed'
Does anyone doubt that, if the world faces another series of major bank failures, governments will behave in exactly the same way, thereby reinforcing the moral hazard problem that's at the root of so much of the financial sector's on-going ...
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Refugee policies give Australia's global reputation a beating
It was also a tactic replete with moral hazard – wouldn't local Indonesians be encouraged to join people-smuggling ventures knowing there could be an opportunity for a financial bonus if they were caught by the Australians? "We would certainly urge all ...
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Did Christie Really Say that College Girls Can Sell Themselves to Pay Tuition?
According to Simkovic, such a system would contribute to “moral hazard” by encouraging borrowers to sacrifice earning potential, long hours and hard, potentially unpleasant work for lower-paying, less stressful careers. What a nightmare for the Powers ...
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