Six years ago, politicians celebrated welfare reform as a way to get poor families off the dole and into the job market. But they left out one detail: What happens when the jobs disappear?
Scores of female factory workers have been murdered in the maquiladora border town of Ciudad Juarez. Now a coalition of Mexican women is trying to make sure the killings will no longer be ignored.
Even before the violence of recent months, border crossings along the West Bank had become flash points in the brutal conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
The government awards billions of dollars in federal contracts every year to corporations that repeatedly violate the law. A Mother Jones investigation uncovers Uncle Sam’s dirtiest business partners.
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