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Co-op banks to invest in worker-owned U.S. businesses

September 17, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The world's largest industrial, worker-owned and run cooperative, Spanish-based Mondragon and its bank, Laboral Kutxa, agreed to partner with U.S. based National Cooperative Bank to invest in U.S. cooperative businesses.

Detroit bankruptcy coming to your city next, leaders warn

September 12, 2013 By John Rummel

Detroit is the canary in the coalmine, warned speakers at a public forum on the city's bankruptcy, held this past Saturday, sponsored by Congressman John Conyers Jr.

AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers

September 10, 2013 By Eric A. Gordon And Juan Lopez

The nation's prison population exploded from 500,000 to 2.2 million between 1980 and 2011, in the decades since the for-profit business of incarceration was born.

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...

“Jury” to Bank of America: “You’re guilty”

August 23, 2013 By John Rummel

The willful wrongdoings of Bank of America were "put on trial" this week. The jury was composed of 200 housing and labor activists and the witnesses against BoA were actors playing parts. But the testimony was...