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Walmart is the country's largest private-sector employer. Which has made it a target of both praise and criticism. [...] "Walmart's business model is pretty simple," said Amy Traub. "The company pays its workers poverty wages. It offers few benefits and it manipulates workers' hours and understaffs
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MPR News Staff
New York has been hailed as a progressive state leading others for passing a budget that makes college tuition free for middle-class students.
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Jill Berman
New York approved a state budget Sunday that included the Excelsior Scholarship, which will allow students whose families earn less than $125,000 a year to attend state public colleges and universities tuition-free.
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"The New York bill is what's known as a 'last-dollar' program."
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Anya Kamenetz
All those who care about getting big money out of politics have real reason to be concerned about Gorsuch’s record.
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Blair Bowie
New York’s plan is a step forward in returning to the days when students could work their way through public college without taking on debt. But the impact on reducing the need to borrow may be minimal, especially for first-generation, low-wealth students.
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Michael Statford
New York became the first state in the country to return to a guarantee of tuition-free college for students at state public colleges and universities.
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Mark Huelsman
Last week, four economics experts publicly debated whether the retailer represents the best capitalism has to offer, or the worst.
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Bourree Lam
April 9, 2017 (New York, NY) -- Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos, released the following statement after New York became the first state in the country to pass tuition-free college:
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It’s hard to imagine honest, revelatory, even enjoyable conversation between people on distant points of American life right now. But in this public conversation at the Citizen University annual conference, Matt Kibbe and Heather McGhee show us how. He’s a libertarian who helped activate the Tea
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Krista Tippett