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The Stiglitz Code: How Taxing Capital Can Counter Inequality
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout:</strong> Corporate interests are pushing the Common Core State Standards in an attempt to privatize public elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States and impose a one-size-fits-all curriculum on classrooms throughout the country. But parents, teachers and students are fighting back.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FD2lUUfPGDoYoXvpAUJkGYyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R05nK6RgOH6xa0gWhYNzPIyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Piketty in Elysium</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> Even before Thomas Piketty's <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> became a surprise bestseller, we were awash in statistical evidence. If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0pMUtFq54Ks1SveVTU11lYyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TESToVMlep%2F%2BTCxi2j47uYyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Dr. Maya Angelou: Her Lifetime of Moments Took Our Breath Away</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Crystal Shepeard, Care2:</strong> The poet, author, singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, activist, mother and teacher conquered many firsts and has left us with more than 30 titles.</p>
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<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RoqMYaUm8BQJyKIfaE4WOoyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> There's a difference between celebrating your own unique way of life and thinking that you can do whatever you want and force your way of life onto everyone else. The United States needs to understand this fact and start basing foreign policy around it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xul0aT1XJ4TyqeNiqahL94yKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Last Commencement Address: Surveilling the Class of 2014</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> "My urge is to graduate you from the world of shadows, where you've spent so much of your last years, into the increasingly shadowy off-screen world, where what matters most still exists."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dyJIekkmNjWj21tyfvJ0fYyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> "The European story remains one of deeply destructive economic policies, which have inflicted vast harm, but have not led to unraveling, because the political cohesion of the euro zone is stronger than people like me realized."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=P%2FR4PflZDHS8%2BY%2Bg2P3tQIyKpPdo2INo" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout:</strong> Richard D. Wolff speaks on the death of Maya Angelou; updates on Chilean students' victory; Detroit's plan to demolish 40,000 houses; and housing market realities. Major discussions on the international movement of economics students challenging curricula and teachers, and the economics of advertising.</p>
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