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Ebola Strikes Mask Collective Bargaining Disputes at Some Hospitals
Registered nurses organized strikes across the country on Wednesday to protest care standards in the wake of the Ebola crisis, even as some hospitals wrangled with union members over their pensions, p ...
13 Nov, 2014
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4 min read
5 Things About the 2014 Midterms You Likely Missed
Republicans swept the 2014 midterm elections on Tuesday, capturing the Senate and delivering a stinging defeat to Democrats that will likely define the next two years.If the 2010 midterms were a “shel ...
06 Nov, 2014
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It's Election Day... So Go Vote
Tuesday will mark the 114th time Americans will go to the polls and decide who will represent them in Congress -- well, some Americans anyway.National turnout this year is likely to fall in the low 40 ...
04 Nov, 2014
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2 min read
Higher Voter Turnouts Challenge Big Money in Politics
Money and power go hand in hand in the current discussion over the state of politics in America. A 2014 study by the California Public Interest Research Group, CALPIRG, found a relatively small number ...
28 Oct, 2014
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3 min read
In The End, Low Voter Turnout Comes Down to Competitiveness in Elections
No matter what political ideology a voter identifies with, every single election comes down to one thing: voter turnout. If voters don't go to the polls to cast ballots, their party affiliation, or la ...
23 Oct, 2014
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4 min read
5 Companies That Could Benefit Most from Consumer Drone Expansion
While the FAA continues to weigh different options on how to regulate the domestic use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), the use of drones have already been in play, for better or for worse.In Se ...
17 Oct, 2014
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3 min read
The Ebola Panic: Turn Off Your TV; Go Get Your Flu Shot
Americans are faced with an unpredictable virus that has been associated with the deaths of thousands of people and is being underscored by public officials -- no, I am not talking about Ebola. I ...
16 Oct, 2014
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Islam and the Mother Lode of Bad Ideas: In Defense of Sam Harris
The spat between Ben Affleck, Sam Harris, and Bill Maher on the HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher over Islam has become so heated and escalated that even 10 days hence, it has still managed to ...
16 Oct, 2014
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PBS Educates Voters Nationwide on Restrictive Voting Laws with 'Ballot Watch'
The 2014 midterm elections are less than a month away and the GOP is poised to seize a majority in the Senate, though that would require winning some close races. Some are expected to come down to jus ...
09 Oct, 2014
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2 min read
Tax-Exempt Political Parties Have Money and Resources to Keep Elections Rigged
Nonprofits have been in the news lately, and it isn’t necessarily because of the good they’re doing.For starters, more than 412,000 people have signed a Change.org petition to revoke the National Foot ...
08 Oct, 2014
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