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“The Mine Wars”: Turning coal into the diamond of solidarity

February 11, 2016 By John Case

"Coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over labor conditions and unionization."

Shady bond deals at root of Chicago school funding crisis

February 11, 2016 By John Wojcik And Roberta Wood

Over a billion dollars of taxpayer money will be diverted from Chicago's school children to high interest loan payments to bankers over the next three decades.

Inequality by the numbers

February 11, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

We Americans like to think of ourselves as a middle-class country where the top is not out of reach and the bottom doesn't pose such a grim, cautionary specter.