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Category: Widgets

The United States of corporate welfare

December 12, 2016 Bobbi Clemons Capitalism, Corporations, Taxes, Trump, Widgets Leave a comment

Another day, another corporation receiving massive tax breaks by the government. Most recently, it was $7 million from the Trump/Pence administration to Carrier (owned

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Prison profits

August 12, 2016 Bobbi Clemons Prison, Widgets 2 comments

Prison reform and prison labor are topics we’ve written about before on the Occasional Planet. American prisons are making tons of money hiring out

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Poverty & powerlessness, up close and personal

April 24, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Literature/Arts/Film, Poverty, Widgets, Widgets: Books Leave a comment

I’ve just read–two years after everyone else–Katherine Boo’s powerful book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. It won the 2012 National Book Award, and a blurb

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