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Consumers League blasts Trump decision to let payday lenders run amok
February 14, 2019“Whether a consumer is applying for a mortgage or borrowing to pay the electric bill, no one should be given a loan that they cannot possibly pay back.”
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Wisconsin Dems struggle to throw off GOP-imposed shackles
February 14, 2019The lame-duck session spat on the will of the people expressed at the ballot box.
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Rapper, 21 Savage, released after being held by ICE
February 14, 2019The arrest of such an influential and mainstream rapper sparks an important conversation. Black undocumented immigrants are frequently overlooked within the discourse around immigration reform.
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House to Trump: Get out of Yemen
February 14, 2019“More than 14 million Yemenis — half the country — are on the brink of famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war. Let’s end...
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Will scandals derail political progress in Virginia?
February 14, 2019Increased voter turnout of the state’s minority working-class base, as well as demographic and cultural changes, have been important drivers of this movement in this formerly arch-segregationist state.
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