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Regarding Conservatives and SNAP Benefits, What’s All The Fuss About Fish?
Tuesday night, Jon Stewart at The Daily Show highlighted a simmering resentment conservatives at FOX News have over how people use SNAP benefits, aka food stamps.
Articles by Cassandra Vert
Financial writer, bookseller, strategic thinker, consultant, progressive activist, scifi geek, music lover, theater person, mastermind. B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara Cum Laude. J.D. University of Illinois. Member, California Bar. Would choose flight over invisibility but teleporting over both. Editor and contributing writer, FIX America, How Each of Us Can Help All of Us. Follow me on Twitter @buybk. Join me in progressive politics at www.planamerica.org
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Why You Should Care About LIBOR
What the LIBOR scandal is and why you should care about it.
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For His Eyes Only: Mitt Romney’s Financial Shell Game
Romney’s refusal to fully disclose all of his financial holdings and income raises red flags. There are no allegations of illegality, but there are an awful lot of questions.
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Daring to Speak the Truth About Job Creation Gets Venture Capitalist Shunned
It wasn’t just what Nick Hanauer said that made his TED talk controversial, it was that he dared challenge conservative assumptions.
Giving Limbaugh the Bum’s Rush
27 years of inflammatory speech have finally caught fire in a campaign that hopes to send Rush Limbaugh into retirement.
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Shenzhen Sweatshops: The Ultimate Goal of Corporatism
Chinese sweatshops are horrific, and they could happen here.
More Evidence That Mitt Romney Has No Clue How Real Americans Live
What Mitt Romney recently said about the rich and poor shows that he has no clue about the country. Here is how America really looks.
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Beyond the Job Numbers: Who is Working?
These job statistics show who is working based on gender, race, and education.
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With A Different Set of Values Our World Could Have Been Different
Profit is not the only measure of worth. What would the last thirty years have been like if we had not been oriented toward profit, short-term returns, privatization, and creating new ways to make money by handling money?
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How We Got Here: The View From Wall Street
There has been a lot of deserved talk about the three legs of corporatism: the right wing message machine, religious fundamentalists, and corporate billionaire funding. However, not as much has been said about Wall Street’s overarching contribution: its creeping dominance over our economy and how its amoral philosophical values have seeped into every part of our culture.