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Meet the corporations who are profiting off our prison system.

Waiting lists for food aid have been growing for years—now almost 15 percent of the nation's elderly don't have enough to eat.

Is AmeriCorps a lifeline for debt-burdened young Americans—or one more example of relentless government cost-cutting?

At its LA convention, organized labor vowed to reinvigorate organizing and strengthen progressive alliances. And not a moment too soon.

As the wealth gap grows, so have the number of ways a woman can sell her body. What is the cost?

Despite Jamie Dimon’s record as a leader in the radical deregulation of banking, Obama continues to cozy up to his Wall Street backer.

Meanwhile, activists organized a counter-summit to discuss the problems world leaders were unwilling to address. 

His withdrawal from consideration as Fed chair could mark a watershed for the left wing of the Democratic Party.

That so many of our political leaders tolerate so much misery amid so much plenty is one of the great scandals of our age.

But Main Street must still live with the consquences of the policies he helped engineer.