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Protesting Students, Striking Faculty

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.02.2012

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As the student loan debt in the United States surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in the nation's history, thirteen courageous students from six California State University campuses will be engaging in civil disobedience in the form of a hunger strike until university leaders agree to freeze tuition.

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California State University: The Coming For-Profit Train Wreck

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.20.2012

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Amidst a serious economic downturn in California, the California State University Chancellor and the Trustees' insistence on maintaining gigantic executive salaries has revealed their detachment from the economic realities facing California's students.

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Code For America Fellows Tackle Municipal Nightmares

HuffingtonPost.com | Ramona Emerson | Posted 03.15.2012

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Shortly after arriving in Santa Cruz, Calif., Ruthie BenDor decided to get a bicycle permit. It wasn't as easy as she might have hoped. The permit,...

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd (Funding)

Barbara Roper | Posted 05.06.2012

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Although the bills making up the JOBS Act are typically described as "non-controversial," they have been severely criticized by leading securities law experts and are opposed by investor advocates and unions, among others.

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SIFMA Hypocritically Protests CFTC User Fee Plan

Barbara Roper | Posted 04.23.2012

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I'm left to wonder, what is the source of SIFMA's sudden cost-consciousness? Because I don't seem to recall ever having heard the association express similar alarm over the costs to investors of the $20 billion or so Wall Street manages to scrape together for bonuses each year.

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Obama To Approve Fuel Efficiency Standards

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 09.25.2011

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President Obama is close to a deal with automakers on proposed plans to introduce new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks from 2017-20...

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Growth, Interrupted: Teen Moms Fight to Save Innovative School (and Farm)

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 08.15.2011

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The fate of an innovative Detroit high school where parenting teens can bring their kids to school for high quality early childhood education, and farmwork is integrated into the curriculum, is all but sealed. But they're not going down without a fight.

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Elizabeth Warren: Consumer Bureau Must Fight For Survival

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Warren pressed consumer advocates to fight on behalf of the newly created consumer protection bureaus she's heading up, warning...

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California: Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scwharzenegger and the Republicans who control California's finances have concluded it's not even worth trying to compete with India and China anymore, as evidenced by the "restructuring" of the California State University system.

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Stealing From California's Young People

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.

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