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To ease or not to ease, that is Fed’s question

September 4, 2013 By John Case

The Jackson Hole conference attended by many of the world's top economists, central bankers and policy makers revealed divisions over current Fed stimulus policy.

Sequester sends San Jose, Calif., rents through roof

September 3, 2013 By Henry Millstein

Some 17,000 tenants on the Federal Section 8 housing program in Santa Clara County recently received rent hikes of 10 percent or more. The area has very nearly the highest housing cost of any place in...

Rim Fire the latest record-breaker in year of unrelenting disasters

September 3, 2013 By Blake Skylar

As the changing climate continues to trigger disaster and disruption, California's Rim Fire, which has burned 235,841 acres, is the latest to be added to this year's list of brushfires.

Calif. prison hunger strike nears two-month mark

September 3, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

The strikers' core demands include ending long-term solitary confinement and group punishment, and offering SHU inmates more constructive programs and activities.

Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle

September 3, 2013 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,