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Why Are Privately Employed Lobbyists Getting State-Funded Pensions?

Some lobbyists receiving benefits are precisely those who push for austerity.

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese

For a large number of state lobbyists, a full state pension is part of the benefits package. Despite being employees of private organizations and drawing private salaries -- sometimes in excess of any state employee’s -- in at least 20 states, hundreds receive state-paid retirement benefits, an Associated Press investigation revealed Sunday. The

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Report: American Workers Are More Productive Than Ever, But For Less Pay

With sixty percent of American workers seeing wages stagnate or decline over the past decade, many are finally demanding a raise.

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels

Despite soaring corporate profits and nearly 25 percent gains in overall workforce productivity, 60 percent of American workers saw their wages stagnate or decline from 2000 to 2012 according to the latest study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a think tank based in Washington D.C. The period has been termed by some economists as the “lost

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Another Police Department Says ‘No’ To ICE’s Detainer Requests

Newark, N.J.’s refusal to detain undocumented immigrants for minor offenses could serve as an olive branch to the immigrant community.

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke

As of last month, the Newark, New Jersey police department is no longer taking orders from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain undocumented immigrants who have been picked up for minor criminal offenses such as shoplifting or vandalism. The policy was signed into law by Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio on July 24. Newark may

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Escalation Feared In Syria Amid Threats Over Ongoing Chemical Strike Investigation

The U.S. has already distanced itself from a U.N. investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack, as regional war looms.

Dale Gavlak
Par Dale Gavlak
In this citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)

Amman, Jordan -- Monday, the Syrian government gave the green light to U.N. inspectors to investigate the site of last week’s deadly chemical attack, which reportedly claimed the lives of hundreds in several suburbs east of Damascus. As suspicions mount over who carried out the attack, the U.N. team came under sniper fire on their way to the

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First Fire, Then Floods In Besieged Western Forest

Western forests have been battered by natural disasters this summer.

Associated Press
Par Associated Press
FILE- In this June 25, 2012, file photo, a plume of smoke rises above the Waldo Canyon wildfire west of Manitou Springs, Colo. The fire left behind vast swaths of scorched earth highly conducive to flash flooding. In Colorado, multiple flash floods have struck this summer in or near scars left by last year’s wildfires. The U.S. Forest Service spent nearly $46 million nationwide in fiscal 2012 on emergency erosion measures. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Drenching rain in the wildfire-blackened hills below Colorado's Pikes Peak sent a torrent of rock and mud into the tourist town of Manitou Springs this month, killing a 53-year-old man and smashing into dozens of houses. It had been more than a year since the enormous Waldo Canyon Fire roared across the slopes

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Toxins Found In Drinking Water Across the U.S: How Bad is the Problem?

“In short, more than 100 million Americans served by these large waterworks were exposed to toxic trash,” EWG reports in their study.

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels

It may surprise most Americans to know that at least 100 million U.S. citizens are exposed to toxic carcinogens every day when they drink water from municipal water supplies. The announcement was first made by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental health research and advocacy organization, in a report released earlier this year.

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