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Stop 'financial strip-mining'

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December 1, 2015

Financialization is a big word that’s causing big problems for working families. Financialization is the strategy that corporate and wealthy interests are using to get and keep an even bigger share of the economic pie. It’s the “financial strip-mining of America,” writes Les Leopold, director of the Labor Institute of New York City, in “Runaway Inequality.” 

Moving Forward: Public and Small Donor Financing of Elections

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December 1, 2015

Seattle passed a ballot initiative that created a funding system that will democratize the city's elections. A Chicago ballot measure promoting small-donor public financing in the city's 50 wards was overwhelmingly approved by voters.