Without legal assistance, tenants often miss crucial steps and find themselves out of a home.
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A Book for the People of Ferguson — And Oppressed People Everywhere
Fred Ross’s change-making Axioms for Organizers is updated for the Internet age, and for a new generation battling discrimination and police brutality.
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What Happens When the Person Taking Care of Your Mom Can’t Earn a Living Wage?
When the Supreme Court ruled that unions could not collect dues from the home-care workers they represent, the justices set workers and their clients on a course that could harm them both.
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Expert: U.S. Police Training in Use of Deadly Force Woefully Inadequate
In U.S. police department budgets, most funding goes to salaries and equipment, and virtually nothing to training. It’s a deadly formula, says Maria Haberfeld of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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How a Widely Beloved Tax Deduction Really Just Benefits the Well-Off and Exacerbates Inequality
National opinion polls show a majority of Americans support the mortgage interest deduction. Yet most U.S. homeowners receive very little benefit from it.
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What Judges Know: The Fault for Underfunded Pensions Lies With Politicians, Not Workers
We can’t count on politicians to stick to their word. It’s promising that judges are forcing them to.
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If You Are Black or Brown in America, Your Parents’ Warnings Can’t Keep You Safe
Our mothers and fathers tell us how to behave when—not if—we are stopped by police. But sometimes it’s no use.
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Affirmative Action, Race or Class: An Exchange
Should universities shift their recruitment focus away from race and onto poor neighborhoods?
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Hobby Lobby Decision Could Give License to Anti-Labor ‘Biblical Economics’ Practices
Religious Right leaders have been working hard to convince conservative evangelicals that the Tea Party’s anti-government, anti-union, anti-welfare agenda is grounded in the Bible, setting the stage for more “religious liberty” legal arguments by corporation owners.
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Argentina’s Loss to Germany Nothing Compared to Financial Rout By U.S.
As Merkel starves ailing European economies, SCOTUS is doing worse to Argentina’s.