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10 Fun Facts About The Student Debt Crisis

1.) Bigger than most countries. Currently, more than 40 million Americans hold student debt. The population with student loans is actually greater than the entire population of Canada, Poland, North Korea, Australia and more ...
by Kyle McCarthy
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Economy

Europe: More Centralisation, More Flexibility

Recently, the Spinelli Group – a group of federalist MEPs – published a text on a new ‘Fundamental Law’ for the EU. In a recent blog, MEPs Guy Verhofstadt and Andrew Duff called for a more federal Europe, with the Commi...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Economy

10 Countries To Watch As Oil Prices Slump

Increased supply from oil exporting countries, greater energy independence in the US and stagnant global demand caused the price of oil to plummet from an average of $100 per barrel in June 2014 to $60 in December 2014. This pr...
by David Bresnahan-McRae
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A Living Wage for the Nation

Last week, in a speech to the left wing think tank the Resolution Foundation, Rachel Reeves the UK MP for Leeds West, and Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; set out her parties ‘One Nation Labour’ approa...
by James Walker
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Economy
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The International Day of Happiness: What Is Gross National Happiness?

In our era of aggressive consumerism, happiness can be purchased in all shapes and colors at every corner. Marketing campaigns claim that pure happiness consists in buying their products, politicians desperately promise us happ...
by Paula Munteanu
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Economy

Obama Masters Deficit Reduction At What Cost?

Rachel Maddow recently showed in her show at MSNBC how President Obama has now reduced the deficit by over 50%, meeting the target he had set. While he meets this target late – having set the deadline for the end of his f...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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Africa

Rejecting the decline in Liberia’s unemployment reports

For more than a decade, this part of Western Africa was engulfed with one chaotic event after another. The country descended into a dungeon that no man would ever dare dream of entering. It was all in the name of freedom for th...
by Joe Wilson
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Asia

Cambodian Garment Workers Are Pressuring H&M, Walmart And Zara To Make Their Suppliers Pay A Living Wage

After launching a nationwide strike last December, Cambodia’s garment workers are back in the streets demanding a monthly minimum wage of 177 US dollars.
by Mong Palatino
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Economy
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A New Internationalism is Needed

There is much discussion over whether or not globalisation has actually happened, and how much effect it has had on reducing the sovereignty of states. I take it to be a rather reasonable belief that a measure of globalisation ...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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