Northern Mariana Islands

Pension Bankruptcy in Tiny U.S. Territory Is a Warning of What May Lie Ahead

David Paul | Posted 05.24.2012

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David Paul

The pension issue is not going to go away. The financial impacts of pension deficits are going to be felt at the state and local level for years, and will continue to influence the political landscape as politicians are forced to confront that which is manifestly broken.

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Abramoff Says He's Still Capable Of Making Millions

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 03.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Jack Abramoff is sitting in a Starbucks just south of Dupont Circle. He is not wearing his infamous black hat. Or any hat at all. He...

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Howard Fineman

Mitt Romney: King Of Non-Contiguousness

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 03.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Here's what the Mitt Romney campaign has been reduced to as it crawls toward the Republican presidential nomination: bragging about the ...

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Guam: Self-Determination, or More U.S. Troops?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Naiman

Usually, when someone refers to a place as a "U.S. colony," they are making an analogy. But, we rarely discuss the fact that there are places in the world that are actual U.S. colonies.

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Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Chen

The 2007 increase in the minimum wage was a modest boost for America's low-wage labor force, but it's making a far bigger splash in the Pacific Ocean, on two remote outposts of the American empire.

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