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Snapshots of the super rich and the rest of us
June 22, 2012CEO pay at America's seven largest banks averaged 100 times the median U.S. household income in 1989 -- and over 500 times that median in 2007.
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“We have made a way when there was no way”
June 22, 2012Juneteenth is increasingly becoming a festive day across the United States.
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Trying to haul highway-mass transit bill out of ditch
June 22, 2012With the House and the Senate trying to hash out their differences on the highway-mass transit bill, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz gave them a shove. The House backed his shove on June 20.
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Today in history: Musicians targeted in anti-Communist witch-hunt
June 22, 2012On June 22, 1950, renowned musicians/performers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Pete Seeger and Artie Shaw were labeled as suspected "Communist sympathizers" in the infamous publication "Red Channels."
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Pass the Student Loan Forgiveness Act
June 21, 2012Financial Aid Office, Business Office, Bursar: those are just some of the names that college students dread when it comes time to pay tuition.
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