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accountability
for credit-rating agencies
for police departments
for Wall Street
acid rain
Aetna
Affordable Care Act
AFL-CIO
African Americans
gender pay gap for
in Hurricane Katrina
incarceration rates for
police departments and
school-to-jail pipeline for
war on drugs and
women
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
agriculture
Alaska
American Airlines
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Americans for Tax Fairness
AmeriCorps
Antarctica ice sheets
Arctic Institute
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arizona
Aspen Ideas Festival
ATM fees
Australia
autocracy
Bank of America
bankruptcy
banks. See also Federal Reserve; Wall Street
Barclays
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bermuda
Bible
Big Brother
Big Sister
Bill of Rights
Bland, Sandra
Boeing
Border Angels
BP
broadband network
Brook, Pete
Brookings Institution
Buffett, Warren
Business Roundtable
Buy American
Buy Local
by-products
California
climate change in
paid family and medical leave in
solar energy in
undocumented immigrants in
Campaign Zero
Canada
glacier melting in
health care in
paid family and medical leave in
prescription drug cost in
single-payer system in
working hours in
capital gains
carbon, taxes on
carbon dioxide
carried-interest loophole
Castile, Philando
Cayman Islands
Celebrex
Central Intelligence Agency
CEOs. See chief executive officers
Chevron
chief executive officers (CEOs)
at drug companies
Federal Reserve and
progressive income tax and
child care
children
gender pay gap and
minimum wage and
paid family and medical leave
of undocumented immigrants
chlorofluorocarbons
Cigna
Citigroup
Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ)
Citizens United Supreme Court decision
citizenship
Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S.
the Clash
climate change
deniers of
employment for
energy efficiency and
extreme weather from
hurricanes from
ice sheets and
leadership on
as national security threat
ocean levels and
ocean temperatures and
poverty and
renewable energy and
temperature increases from
water and
climate refugees
Clinton, Hillary
coal
Cohen, William
college. See higher education
Commonwealth Fund
communism
computer trading
confidentiality agreements, of Wall Street
conflicts of interest, at Federal Reserve
Congress
drug companies and
immigration and
prescription drug prices and
Wall Street and
Congressional Budget Office
ConocoPhillips
Constitution
Controlled Substances Act
Copaxone
copayments, with health insurance
corporations. See also drug companies; insurance companies
outsourcing by
private prisons
taxes and
trade policy and
Corrections Corporation of America
cost-of-living increases
Council of Economic Advisers
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Coyote
credit cards
credit-rating agencies
criminal justice system. See also incarceration rates
death penalty and
employment and
immigration and
mandatory minimum sentencing in
mental health and
minimum wage and
in police departments
poverty and
private prisons and
school-to-jail pipeline and
voting and
war on drugs and
Criminal Law Reform Project, of ACLU
currency cheating
Dakota Access Pipeline
Dante
death penalty
deductibles, with health insurance
democracy
dental care
Department of Defense, U.S.
Department of Education, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, U.S.
Department of Justice, U.S.
derivatives
dividends
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
doctor shortage
DREAM Act
drug companies
CEO compensation at
profiteering by
DuBose, Samuel
Earthjustice
Economic Policy Institute
The Economist
electric cars
emergency rooms
Emily’s List
employment
criminal justice system and
for-profit schools and
in government
health insurance and
higher education for
in manufacturing
minimum wage and
paid family and medical leave in
paid sick leave in
paid vacation time in
trade policy and
of undocumented immigrants
Wall Street and
Enbrel
energy efficiency
entrepreneurship
environment. See also climate change
EpiPen
Equal Justice Initiative
equal pay for women
estate tax
Exxon
ExxonMobil
families
gender pay gap and
immigration and
paid family and medical leave
student debt and
of undocumented immigrants
wealth of
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
fast-food companies
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Reserve
conflicts of interest at
Government Accountability Office and
Great Recession and
interest rates and
transparency of
Wall Street and
financial crisis of 2008. See Great Recession
financial services industry. See Wall Street
Finland
Fitch
Flash Boys (Lewis)
food stamps. See Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
for-profit schools
fossil fuels
lobbying for
marketing for
tax breaks for
401(k) funds
Fox, Josh
fracking
France
Francis (Pope)
free tuition, for higher education
Friends of the Earth
Gandhi, Mohandas
Garner, Eric
Gasland (Fox)
GDP. See gross domestic product
gender pay gap
General Electric
GEO Group
geothermal energy
Germany
climate change contribution of
free college tuition in
health care outcomes in
paid family and medical leave in
working hours in
gift tax
glacier melting
Glass-Steagall Act
global warming. See climate change
Goldman Sachs
Good Jobs Nation
Gore, Al
government
employment in
Government Accountability Office
Gray, Freddie
Great Recession (financial crisis of 2008)
derivatives and
Federal Reserve and
middle class and
Wall Street and
green cards
greenhouse gas emissions
carbon dioxide as
methane as
taxes on
from transportation sector
Greenland ice sheets
Greenpeace
gross domestic product (GDP)
guest workers
Guthrie, Woody
Hansen, James
Hanson, Gordon
Hart Research Associates
health care
for dental care
doctor shortage for
emergency rooms for
employment for
entrepreneurship and
insurance companies and
for mental health
outcomes of
poverty and
prescription drug costs and
profitability of
reimbursement rates by
single-payer system for
health insurance
copayments with
deductibles with
employment and
higher education and
heroin overdoses
higher education
administrative costs of
for employment
for-profit schools and
free tuition for
graduation rates for
health insurance and
for middle class
price of
textbook cost in
unemployment and
of women
Hispanics. See also undocumented immigrants
History Channel
Holder, Eric
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
homophobia
housing
affordability of
subsidies for
HSBC
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Patricia
Hurricane Sandy
hurricanes
hydrofluorocarbons
IBM
ice sheets
Iceland
iMentor
immigration
citizenship and
criminal justice system and
health care and
income and wealth inequality and
private prisons and
undocumented immigrants and
In the Public Interest
incarceration rates
for African Americans
from war on drugs
income and wealth inequality
of CEOs
history of
immigration and
personal income tax and
progressive estate tax and
progressive income tax and
taxes and
unions and
United for a Fair Economy and
at Walmart
An Inconvenient Truth
infant mortality rate
infrastructure, employment for
Institute for Environment and Human Security
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
insurance companies. See also health insurance
lobbying by
mental health and
profiteering by
interest rates
on credit cards
Federal Reserve and
for student debt
usury
Wall Street and
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Federation of Health Plans
International Labor Organization
International Organization for Migration
International Rescue Committee
Iraq
Ireland
Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana
Japan
jobs. See employment
Johnson Controls
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan
Kaiser Family Foundation
Keystone XL pipeline
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Koch, Charles
Koch, David
Labaton Sucharow
Labor Day songs
landfills, methane from
Lewis, Michael
life expectancy
living wage
equal pay for women
in fast-food companies
minimum wage as
for undocumented immigrants
unions and
at Walmart
lobbying
Los Angeles, CA
Maldives
mandatory minimum sentencing
manufacturing employment
marijuana
marketing
for for-profit schools
for fossil fuels
for health care
Medicaid
Medicare
mental health
criminal justice system and
Merck
methane
Mexico
middle class
employment for
Great Recession and
higher education for
unions and
Wall Street and
minimum wage
American support for raising
children and
cost-of-living increases for
current federal level of
current state levels for
economic benefits of
Economic Policy Institute
to $15 an hour
of government employees
as living wage
low birth weight and
Walmart and
monarchy
money laundering, by Wall Street
Moody’s
Morgan Stanley
mortgages
credit-rating agencies and
Wall Street and
Mylan
NAFTA. See North American Free Trade Agreement
NASA
The Nation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Immigration Forum
National Immigration Law Center
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Native Americans
New Jersey
New York
Nexium
NextGen Climate
nitrous oxide
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Norway
Obama, Barack
ocean, levels of
offshore tax havens
oil extraction
oligarchy
opioid crisis
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ostrander, Scott
outsourcing
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
paid family and medical leave
economic benefits of
paid sick leave
unions and
paid vacation time
Pakistan
Parton, Dolly
payday lenders
pension funds
Boeing and
computer trading of
IBM and
mortgage-backed securities in
unions and
personal income tax
Pew Research Center
Pfizer
PG&E. See Pacific Gas & Electric
pharmaceutical companies. See drug companies
Physicians for a National Health Program
police departments
African Americans and
demilitarization of
as revenue generators
pollution
climate change and
from fracking
post offices, for banking
poverty
climate change and
forty-three million in
health care and
reduction of
VISTA and
prescription drugs costs
private prisons
progressive estate tax
progressive income tax
ProPublica
Public Religion Research Institute
racism
Reach Out and Read
Reagan, Ronald
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Remote Area medical
renewable energy
climate change and
tax breaks for
Rhode Island
Rice, Tamir
Robinson, Mary
Rohatyn, Felix
Russia
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
Sanders, Bernie
on ATM fees
on climate change
on derivatives
on energy efficiency
on health care
on higher education
on incarceration rates
on income and wealth inequality
on manufacturing
on minimum wage
on offshore tax havens
on paid family and vacation leave
on pensions
presidential campaign of
on renewable energy
school-to-jail pipeline
Scott, Walter
SeaTac, WA
Seattle, WA
Securities and Exchange Commission
senior citizens
sexism
Shell
Shishmaref, Alaska
single-payer system, for health care
Social Security
social tariff
socialism
solar energy
Soros, George
South Korea
Southern Poverty Law Center
speculation, by Wall Street
Standard & Poor’s
Sterling, Alton
The Street, the Bull and the Crisis
student debt
bankruptcy and
families and
from for-profit schools
interest rates for
substance abuse. See also war on drugs
sulfur oxides
superstorms
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, food stamps)
Sweden
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Switzerland
tax breaks
for fossil fuels
for renewable energy
taxes
of American Airlines
of Boeing
on capital gains
on carbon
of Citigroup
corporations and
on dividends
of General Electric
by governments
on greenhouse gas emissions
of IBM
income and wealth inequality and
of Johnson Controls
loopholes for
on methane
personal income tax
of Pfizer
of PG&E
progressive estate tax
progressive income tax
reform for
of undocumented immigrants
of Verizon
Wall Street and
of Xerox
teachers
Texas
textbook cost
theocracy
This (Illegal) American Life
tips, minimum wage and
tobacco industry
“too big to fail,” Wall Street as
totalitarianism
trade policy
transparency
for credit-rating agencies
for derivatives
of Federal Reserve
for fracking
in government
in Wall Street
transportation sector
Trump, Donald
Trump University
Ty Inc.
Tyson Foods
underemployment
undocumented immigrants
in agriculture
in Arizona
in California
children of
employment of
families of
living wage for
NAFTA and
taxes of
unemployment
climate change and
unions
United Farm Workers
United for a Fair Economy
United Kingdom
United Nations, Institute for Environment and Human Security of
universal health care
Universal Health Services
University of Notre Dame
usury
Verizon
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
VISTA
voting, criminal justice system and
Wall Street
collusion by
computer trading on
confidentiality agreements of
Congress and
credit-rating agencies of
criminal prosecution of
derivatives and
ethics of
Federal Reserve and
fraud by
GDP and
Great Recession and
interest rates and
middle class and
mortgages and
punitive fines of
regulation of
speculation by
taxes and
as “too big to fail”
usury by
Walmart
war on drugs
African Americans and
incarceration rates from
Washington (State)
Washington, D.C.
water
climate change and
fracking and
Wells Fargo
Western, Bruce
whistleblowers
Why Wall Street Matters (Cohen)
wind energy
women
African American
equal pay for
higher education of
minimum wage for
Native American
with paid family and medical leave
Women’s Rights Project
working hours
World Bank
World Factbook
Xerox
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights