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The Business Roundtable is attempting to restrict shareholders' rights as utilities and fossil fuel companies face increasing scrutiny from investors over climate change.
The Bradley Foundation underwrote new efforts to undermine popular public policies that help women and families.
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, on November 17, 2011. The protests reflected anger over the growing income gap and the global debt crisis. (Photo: Marcus Yam / The New York Times)
Absent new job creation, we need the assurance that every family will receive a guaranteed income, especially in light of the extreme wealth derived from decades of new technologies funded by our tax dollars, says Paul Buchheit, author of Disposable Americans. Independent studies of guaranteed income programs show improved education and health outcomes, as well as more stability for families.
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Immigrant rights advocates and attorneys describe how, in his first 100 days in office, Donald Trump has coordinated an unprecedented crackdown on immigration, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into state attacks on undocumented immigrants and funded a brutal expansion of the US deportation infrastructure.
When women are incarcerated, their children become "collateral damage" within a system that's more focused on punishment than providing the support needed by women struggling with poverty, abuse or addiction. Mary Fish, herself an incarcerated mother and grandmother in Oklahoma, interviews fellow prisoners about how incarceration has affected their relationships with their children.
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