Robert Reich | If Corporations Don't Like a Law, They Make the Penalties So Low That They Can Disregard It
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "When I was labor secretary, the most frustrating experience (other than battling Bob Rubin) was dealing with companies that treated law breaking as a cost of doing business. They get away with it because the maximum penalties for violating the law (multiplied by the probability of being caught) are lower than the profits they can make by ignoring it."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "When I was labor secretary, the most frustrating experience (other than battling Bob Rubin) was dealing with companies that treated law breaking as a cost of doing business. They get away with it because the maximum penalties for violating the law (multiplied by the probability of being caught) are lower than the profits they can make by ignoring it."
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GOP Defectors: Every High-Profile Republican Who Refuses to Back Trump
Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "Donald Trump's supporters like to visualize his campaign as a roaring freight train, but the accurate metaphor might be a leaky boat: Trump is rapidly sinking in the polls, and longtime GOP loyalists are jumping ship every day."
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Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone
Stuart writes: "Donald Trump's supporters like to visualize his campaign as a roaring freight train, but the accurate metaphor might be a leaky boat: Trump is rapidly sinking in the polls, and longtime GOP loyalists are jumping ship every day."
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Federal Declaration Ending Over Flint Water
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A federal emergency declaration over Flint's lead-tainted water crisis is ending, but officials say work will continue to fix the drinking water system and provide services to city residents."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "A federal emergency declaration over Flint's lead-tainted water crisis is ending, but officials say work will continue to fix the drinking water system and provide services to city residents."
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Racial Disparity In Mental Health Treatment
Seerat Chabba, International Business Times
Chabba writes: "A new study has found that despite having a similar rate of mental health problems as white students, black and Hispanic students are less likely to receive proper mental health treatment, showcasing inherent racial inequalities that may be plaguing educational institutions."
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Seerat Chabba, International Business Times
Chabba writes: "A new study has found that despite having a similar rate of mental health problems as white students, black and Hispanic students are less likely to receive proper mental health treatment, showcasing inherent racial inequalities that may be plaguing educational institutions."
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Is God Transgender?
Mark Sameth, The New York Times
Sameth writes: "I'm a rabbi, and so I'm particularly saddened whenever religious arguments are brought in to defend social prejudices - as they often are in the discussion about transgender rights. In fact, the Hebrew Bible, when read in its original language, offers a highly elastic view of gender. And I do mean highly elastic."
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Mark Sameth, The New York Times
Sameth writes: "I'm a rabbi, and so I'm particularly saddened whenever religious arguments are brought in to defend social prejudices - as they often are in the discussion about transgender rights. In fact, the Hebrew Bible, when read in its original language, offers a highly elastic view of gender. And I do mean highly elastic."
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Israeli Settler Bulldozers Uproot 500 Olive Trees in Salfit, Palestine
Ma'an News Agency
Excerpt: "Israeli settler bulldozers under the protection of Israeli army and intelligence forces uprooted hundreds of olive trees from Palestinian lands in the village of Iskaka in eastern Salfit on Wednesday morning."
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Ma'an News Agency
Excerpt: "Israeli settler bulldozers under the protection of Israeli army and intelligence forces uprooted hundreds of olive trees from Palestinian lands in the village of Iskaka in eastern Salfit on Wednesday morning."
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Outside Experts Ding EPA Fracking Report's Optimistic Conclusions
Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica
Johnson writes: "Last year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the draft of a major report on the practice of hydraulic fracking-a technique to harvest oil and natural gas trapped within shale rocks. Although the report is only a draft, it was four years in the making and represents one of the first formal evaluations of fracking in the US as a whole."
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Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica
Johnson writes: "Last year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the draft of a major report on the practice of hydraulic fracking-a technique to harvest oil and natural gas trapped within shale rocks. Although the report is only a draft, it was four years in the making and represents one of the first formal evaluations of fracking in the US as a whole."
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