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The Center for American Progress compiled its own bracket for March Madness on the worst conservative legislation in the last year. Help us a pick a winner.
Center for American Progress
If you care about salt water only when gargling, or annual beach parties, might as well skip this piece.
NationofChange | Progressive Journalism for Positive Action
“There is not legitimate reason, other than industry self interest, that keeps ALL information about our food, medicine and any other product from us.
Food Democracy Now
This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.8 million listeners. It is produced by Chicago Public Media , distributed by Public Radio International , and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around 700,000 people downloading each week.
About Us | This American Life
Wages fell among every entry-level group of workers regardless of education from 2000 to 2011 according to data from the upcoming edition of The State of Working America .
Economic Policy Institute
Millions of Americans will spend part of this upcoming weekend trying to navigate tax preparation software or filling out the actual paper forms to file their income tax returns before the Tuesday deadline.
CTJ - Citizens For Tax Justice
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music , film , art , technology , design , food , publishing and other creative fields. A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project.We’re Stockbox Grocers and we’re working to fix the grocery gap in a neighborhood near you.
Stockbox Grocers
Congratulations to Nomsa Mazwai, a South African Fulbright student and musician, on winning a South African Music Award for Best Adult Alternative African Music!
Fulbright - International Educational Exchange Program - Home
The Breakthrough Institute is a paradigm-shifting think tank committed to modernizing liberal thought for the 21st Century.
The Breakthrough Institute: About
Matrices, vectors, vector spaces, transformations. Covers all topics in a first year college linear algebra course. This is an advanced course normally taken by science or engineering majors after taking at least two semesters of calculus (although calculus really isn't a prereq) so don't confuse this with regular high school algebra.
Khan Academy
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Shaping Debate, Building Networks, Making a DifferenceKandace Vallejo, a staff member at Austin, Texas' Proyecto Defensa Laboral/Workers Defense Project, coordinates the organization's Youth Empowerment Program, where she works with low-income, first-generation Latino youth and their families to educate, organize, and take action to create a more just and equitable food system for workers and consumers alike. Kandace began organizing in 2005 with the Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA), an organization formed to support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in their struggle to stop the low wages, human rights abuses, and modern-day slavery endemic to the United States agricultural industry.
Kandace Vallejo | IATP Food and Community Fellows
One of the oldest American foundations, the Russell Sage Foundation was established by Mrs.