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Dallas’ Attempt To Fight Charities That Feed Homeless Cost 8 Years And $250,000

Dallas’ experience should be an example to other cities, like Fort Lauderdale, Florida, attempting to ban feeding the homeless in public.

December 11th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

Dallas city leaders voted Wednesday to walk back its crackdown on feeding the homeless in public and agreed to pay out a quarter-million-dollar cash settlement to the charities that took the city to court eight

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Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime

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World Bank: Up to 150 Million More People Will Live in Extreme Poverty by 2021

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Big Banks Balk, So Colorado Has Created A Credit Union For The Marijuana Industry

The Fourth Corner Credit Union seeks to end the reliance on cash in the legal cannabis business, which many see as dangerous.

December 09th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

Big Banks Balk, So Colorado Has Created A Credit Union For The Marijuana Industry

Nearly a year after Colorado’s first legal marijuana shops opened, the thriving industry’s biggest problem is deciding what to do with all of its cash. Now, the state banking commission believes it has found a way to free pot entrepreneurs from the regulatory haze between federal banking laws, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) policy, and the state’s

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A “Slap in the Face:” Anger at Pelosi, Democrats Over Paltry $600 Stimulus Check

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Lee Camp: Unemployment Skyrocketing? An Evolved Society Would Celebrate

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Mortgage Giant Accused Of Faking Documents To Justify Foreclosures

The newest alleged violations at Ocwen, which is the fourth-largest mortgage servicing company nationwide, share DNA with the widespread document falsification scandal that was dubbed “robo-signing” when it broke into headlines in 2010.

October 24th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

New York state’s top financial regulator says one of the biggest mortgage servicing companies in America has continued to backdate paperwork in order to justify illegitimate foreclosures, more than two years after the widespread falsification of key foreclosure documents by financial companies was revealed and quickly resolved through a settlement

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Lee Camp: Unemployment Skyrocketing? An Evolved Society Would Celebrate

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Secret Recordings Inside The Federal Reserve Prompt Elizabeth Warren To Call For Investigation

“When regulators care more about protecting big banks from accountability than they do about protecting the American people from risky and illegal behavior on Wall Street, it threatens our whole economy.”

September 30th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

Secret Recordings Inside The Federal Reserve Prompt Elizabeth Warren To Call For Investigation

Reports: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) want to investigate the Federal Reserve’s relationships with the banks it oversees after the release of taped conversations between managers and a

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Fed Study on Household Wealth Reveals Troubling Trends in American Inequality

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1 In 6 Food Charities Could Close Down Soon, And 5 Other Disturbing Facts From A New Hunger Report

A revealing new report on the plight of America’s hungry.

August 19th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

1 In 6 Food Charities Could Close Down Soon, And 5 Other Disturbing Facts From A New Hunger Report

Every four years, Feeding America releases its massive “Hunger In America” (HIA) study to document how millions of volunteers and tens of thousands of anti-hunger charities bring aid to the tens of millions of people who live on the brink of hunger in the planet’s richest country.

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China Tech Ban Mirrors 1980s Attempts To Destroy Japanese Competition

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What Happens When A Congressman Spends A Night Among The Homeless

One California Congressman goes above and beyond to gain a sense of what many of America’s homeless endure daily.

August 16th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

What Happens When A Congressman Spends A Night Among The Homeless

When Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) showed up at the intake facility for the Path of Life homeless shelter in his Riverside, California district on Tuesday, the staff who put him through the standard check-in process knew who he was. But for the rest of his stay — dinner, a night’s sleep in one of the shelter’s 129 beds, and breakfast Wednesday morning —

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Fire-Engulfed California Short on Firefighters as Prison “Slaves” Under COVID-19 Lockdown

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Disunited States: Government Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid Revolution

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Gov. Cuomo Plans To Change Medical Marijuana Laws In New York

After years of opposition, Andrew Cuomo has changed his stance on medical marijuana.

January 06th, 2014

By Alan Pyke for Think Progress @PykeA

Gov. Cuomo Plans To Change Medical Marijuana Laws In New York

When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) proposal to legalize medical marijuana in the state via executive action comes into effect, as many as 100,000 individuals with serious health problems in New York City will gain access to the drug. Despite having publicly opposed medical cannabis as recently as last spring, Cuomo is preparing to bypass the

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Lee Camp: How News of a Cure for Cancer Got Lost in Our Nightly Political Theater

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