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Students in Debt, Professors in Poverty - What's going wrong?

The fight for a living wage has been a hot-button issue over the past 5 years and will certainly be a talking point in upcoming presidential elections. 

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College Football is Stealing Your Education

We are in a college debt crisis. Almost 70 percent of college students graduate with approximately $30,000 in college debt. In 1992, it was one-third of that average.

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Prayer Won't Stop Gun Violence. Legislation Will.

This article is written by Robert Greenwald and appears in the HuffingtonPost.com

Last Thursday, Americans paused as they have become accustomed to doing, as national news reported a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. 

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Jamychael Mitchell: Mentally Ill, Criminalized, and Killed by the System

This article is written by David Muhammed and appears on the HuffingtonPost.com

Stories like the one of Jamycheal Mitchell, the 24-year-old young man who was found dead in his jail cell on August 19, are particularly hard to hear.

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Trail 'em, Nail 'em, Jail 'em: How We Treat Mental Illness

This article can be found on huffingtonpost.com and is orginally written by

A young man suffering from mental illness is screaming incoherently at a fast-food restaurant and someone calls 911. When the police arrive, the man has not harmed anyone, is not armed, and is standing up talking to himself. 

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The Iran deal is the best we've got. There is no "better deal".

The framework agreement that the U.S. and its international partners reached with Iran that blocks Tehran's pathways to building a nuclear bomb is only a few weeks old, yet the usual suspects have already denounced it as a "bad deal."

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Henry A Wallace National Security Forum Series

By Robert Greenwald & Vanessa Baden

In our new film series, some of the smartest thinkers of our time warn that the runaway national security state, and the endless war and surveillance that underpins it, is creating a more perilous world.

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Keeping Truth Legal: It is Our Right to Film the Police

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By Robert Greenwald & Vanessa Baden -

Without the video from the cases of Freddie GrayEric GarnerTamir Rice, andWalter Scott, these cases and many others would have gone uninvestigated and unnoticed; with many holding staunchly to the belief that whatever is written in a police report is fact.

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When $4.6 BIllion just isn't enough.

 

By: Robert Greenwald & Regina Clemente 

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