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SOURCE: American Prospect
5/21/2020
Everybody Hates the SBA
How did one of the most addled government agencies end up as our last line of pandemic defense? The answer lies in the agency's history of capture by large business interests.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
4/5/2020
Wall Street Wins – Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus
by Nomi Prins
If ground-up solutions to help ordinary Americans and small businesses aren’t adopted, one thing is predictable: once this crisis has been “managed,” we’ll be set up for a larger one in an even more disparate world.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2020
Don’t Feel Sorry for the Airlines
by Tim Wu
Before providing airlines any assistance, we must demand that they change how they treat their customers and employees.
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