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Wednesday, 13 June 2012 | |  News Analysis: "The California Right to Know initiative is backed by a broad array of consumer, health, and environmental groups, businesses and farmers. Major endorsers include Public Citizen, Sierra Club, American Public Health Association, United Farm Workers, California Certified Organic Farmers, Organic Consumers Association, Consumer Federation of America, Nature's Path, Lundberg Family Farms, Organic Valley, Dr. Bronner's, Eden Foods, Mercola.com, Center for Food Safety, Food Democracy Now! and the California State Grange." | | |  Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: Some 900 campuses have signed card deals with such outfits as Wells Fargo and Higher One. These high-flying financiers grin from ear to ear as they line their pockets with tens of millions of dollars a year that they siphon from the public fund that was meant to extend America's educational opportunities to working-class and poor families. Banks get the goldmine, students get shaft. | | |  Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "The plans can't remain solvent if young and healthy people can choose not to join them, leaving an insurance pool heavy with expensive sick people. Only a handful of states have moved forward on the exchanges, as others wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the individual mandate. The 2006 Massachusetts health reforms, put into place by then-Gov. Mitt Romney, served as the model for the Affordable Care Act." | | |  Robert Reich, Op-Ed: "We might learn something from history. During the 1920s, income concentrated at the top. By 1928, the top 1 percent was raking in an astounding 23.94 percent of the total (close to the 23.5 percent the top 1 percent got in 2007) according to analyses of tax records by my colleague Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty. At that point the bubble popped and we fell into the Great Depression." | | |  Amy Goodman, Video Report: "Housing advocates say the problem was exacerbated by the city's cancellation of the 'Advantage' apartment rental subsidy, with as many as 8,000 former aid recipients now facing eviction. We get a report from Democracy Now!'s Chantal Berman, who interviewed several aid recipients who could soon lose their homes, and speak to Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst at Coalition for the Homeless in New York City." | | |  Dean Baker, Op-Ed: More importantly, the government grants patent and copyright monopolies for long periods of time. In the case of prescription drugs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project that we will spend more than $4 trillion over the next decade for drugs that would likely cost less than $400 billion in a free market, a gap of more than $3.6 trillion. | | |  Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed: The truth? France's Socialists, like the Social Democrats in Germany and the Laborites in the UK, and indeed like all the major socialist parties in Europe, have no problem with capitalism. Not one industry will find itself the target of expropriation under Hollande. France will continue to be a capitalist economy under Hollande and its corporations, which include some of the largest capitalist enterprises in the world, will continue to flourish. | | |  Alice Su, News Report: "Some chemical companies oppose EPA action by pointing to the Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), an interim set of standards passed in 2006 that asks high-risk facilities to assess and report on their security procedures. Yet CFATS exempts thousands of plants, including about 2,400 water treatment facilities and most oil refineries. It also explicitly bars the Department of Homeland Security from requiring specific security measures, such as adopting safer processes." | | |  Josh Harkinson, Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 269 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." | | |  Annie-Rose Strasser, News Analysis: Other groups that have dropped ALEC include: Walmart, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft, Wendy's, Mars, Inc., Arizona Public Service, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Scantron, The National Association of Charter School Authorizers, Kaplan, Procter & Gamble, Yum! Brands, five Pennsylvania legislators, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Elsevier, American, Intuit, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | | |  Sarah van Gelder, Op-Ed: "Houses draw from the bounty of the Earth for water, energy, and building materials. The way we've built and inhabited homes in the United States is a major source of greenhouse gases, creating an ecological bubble far more serious than the financial bubble. We know how to do better. Homes can be built with plentiful, local materials; we can be frugal with energy and water; and we can locate homes where little or no driving is required." | | |  Stephen Leahy, News Analysis: The rapid warming of the Arctic and its resource potential has led to widespread concern about how development in the region will be managed. That's why a group of 14 young people, aged 17-24, from Canada, Norway and Hong Kong are going to the Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio this month. "There is already some oil and gas extraction going on in the Arctic." | | | FROM AROUND THE WEB |
Syrian Unrest UN peacekeeping chief says government has lost "large chunks of territory" as activists report more shelling in Homs. |
U.S. Jobs Dwindling summer job market for teens. |
U.S. Economy Fewer than half the states sales tax came in on target. |
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