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-------- CUTTING CORPORATE TAXES WILL NOT BOOST AMERICAN WAGES ---------------

*    Josh Bivens
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/    Economic Policy Institute
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             Policymakers who are sincere about boosting wages would heed the 
advice of Mishel and Eisenbrey (2015), and undertake policy measures to 
redistribute economic leverage and bargaining power away from capital owners 
and corporate managers and back to low- and middle-wage workers.



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-------- SIMPLE BACTERIA OFFER CLUES TO THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS --------

*    Jordana Cepelewicz
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/    Quanta
/


             Studies of the energy-harvesting proteins in primitive cells 
suggest that key features of photosynthesis might have evolved a billion 
years earlier than scientists thought.



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-------- FOR AMERICAN CORPORATIONS, WINNING IS NOT ENOUGH --------------------

*    Lauren Carasik
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/    Boston Review
/


             SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are not 
new.  What is relatively new is the decision by companies to ramp up the 
potential impact of their cases by bringing charges under the federal 
racketeering statute called RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt 
Organizations Act), a law which facilitates suits against sprawling criminal 
enterprises.



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-------- WHO ORDERED KILLING OF HONDURAN ACTIVIST? EVIDENCE OF BROAD PLOT IS
         FOUND ---------------------------------------------------------------

*    Elisabeth Malkin
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/    New York Times
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             The existing proof is conclusive regarding the participation of 
numerous state agents, high-ranking executives and employees of Desa in the 
planning, execution and cover-up of the assassination



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-------- TOP DEMS INTRODUCE BILL TO ALLOW HHS TO NEGOTIATE LOWER DRUG PRICES
         FOR MEDICARE --------------------------------------------------------

*    Bernie Sanders
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/    Common Dreams
/


             The Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2017 would finally 
allow the government to negotiate directly with drug companies to lower 
prices for Medicare beneficiaries, much like the VA and Medicaid do today.



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