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We're in This Together 

One response to the financial crisis: "Common Security Clubs." ONE EVENING LAST NOVEMBER, Connie Borbeau encouraged several people gathered in a...

Don't let corporations off the tax hook 

By CHUCK COLLINS and SARAH ANDERSON

TAXPAYERS shouldn't have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries.

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Without a Net 

Without a Net The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, by Katharine Newman and Victor Tan Chen. Beacon Press. Reviewed by Chuck...

OVERPAID CEOS UNDRESS IN PUBLIC 

When it comes to the exorbitant pay of America's corporate chief executive officers, everyone likes to quote Louis Brandeis, who said...

Estate Tax: A Recycling Program in Disguise, The 

Last November, Washington state voters recognized the value of their state's inheritance tax and voted to preserve it. Last fall, anti-tax...

Wal-Mart Goes to School 

The Walton empire gets political. EDUCATION Wal-Mart is frequently in the news as America's most controversial retailer and largest private...

War should be a time of sacrifice for all 

In one America, we hold bake sales to buy Kevlar bulletproof vests for family members deployed to Iraq. In another America, lobbyists press to...

Shame Deficit, The 

No tax cuts during wartime, by Chuck Collins PROFITEERING A year ago Sen. John McCain, an ardent supporter of the war in Iraq, took the Senate...

Life on the Edge 

Life on the Edge The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David K. Shipler. Knopf. More than four decades ago, Michael Harrington held a mirror...

Shrink, SHIFT, Shaft 

Bush's tax policy is aimed at drastically reducing government services and moving the tax burden to poorer wage-earners. The result: a case of...