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Intermission: Protest Big Banks with Their Own Junk Mail
Big banks have been sending you the means to protest their greed for years. You just never realized it.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Leaving Your Big Predatory Bank
If you've been complaining about the sins of the financial industry for the past few years, here's your chance to fight back.
Business
Breaking Bread: Panera's Pay-What-You-Want Model Is Thriving
The Panera CEO reports that his free cafés are thriving in spite of naysaying and a horrible economy.
News
Capital Stupidity: The Death Penalty Costs California $300 Million Per Execution
Not only is the death penalty racist, classist, and ultra-violent, a new study says it's tremendously wasteful, too.
News
White Americans Now Have 20 Times the Wealth of Black Americans
When the housing bubble burst, a lot of blacks and Latinos took a big hit that's left an extra-wide gulf between them and whites.
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Uncredited: I Don't Have a Credit Card, and Maybe You Shouldn't Either
As our nation comes to terms with the possibility of its credit score being downgraded, a reflection on never having credit debt in the first place.
Culture
Rich Americans Are Far Richer Than Rich Foreigners
If you thought America's rich were doing well for America, try comparing them to France and Germany's rich.
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What a Mess: $6.6 Billion in Cash Presumed Lost in Iraq
As America's economy continues to flag, it might infuriate you to know that we're literally losing billions in a far-off desert.
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Most Americans Don't Believe Nation Is Economically Divided
New research shows that, despite mounting evidence, most Americans still don't believe they're split into "haves" and "have-nots."
Education
Education Reform? Student Activists Are Doing It Themselves
While debates about education policy rage on in Washington, D.C. many students are taking matters into their own hands.
News
15 Percent of Americans Are Now on Food Stamps
The number of people getting money to feed themselves and their families hit an all-time high in May.
Culture
How the Film Industry's Big Budgets Are Killing Movie Theaters
With Netflix streaming on the rise, pricey movie theaters are less and less attractive. Let's lower film budgets and thus ticket prices.
Environment
New Microloans Could Give Young Farmers the Capital They Need
Beginning farmers don’t need much money to get started. But until now, the USDA had no way of giving them any loans at all.
Education
Adults Who Participated in High School Extracurricular Activities Earn More Money
Don't be embarrassed if you went to band camp. It turns out being in clubs raises future earnings by almost 12 percent.
Culture
Homeschool: How to Get Your Finances in Order
You can't control those reckless banks and free-borrowing governments, but you can get your own budget in order. Here's how.
Education
What's the Key to Ending the Math and Science Teacher Shortage?
The real problem isn't recruiting teachers. It's keeping them in the classroom.
News
People Are Awesome: Connecticut Lotto Winners Immediately Give Away $1 Million to Vets
A team of wealthy money managers who won a Powerball jackpot has already started giving millions away.
Lifestyle
The Vicious Cycle of Status Envy: Why We Buy Things We Can't Afford
Retail therapy may be a quick fix to boost our sense of status, but in the end, it kicks us when we're down.
