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Drinking Dirty Water: Is America’s Water Safety In Jeopardy?

Despite the Safe Drinking Water Act, you and your family may be drinking dirty water.

2013/03/13

File photo of Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief David Corn. (credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Mother Jones Reporter Wins Polk Award For Romney ’47 Percent’ Story

The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are victims” is among the winners of the 64th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism.

2013/02/18

A Rutgers study finds that a majority of Americans were personally affected by the Great Recession economic downturn. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Study: 73 Percent Of Americans Personally Affected By Job Losses

The Great Recession personally affected a vast majority of Americans with 56 percent of a study saying they have less money in savings than they did before the economic decline.

2013/02/07

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes that unemployment is far more important than the debate over the "fiscal crisis." (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

Krugman: America Faces Job Crisis, Not ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Crisis

New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes that Americans are not facing a fiscal crisis, they are really facing a job crisis.

2012/12/07