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David Dayen

David Dayen is a contributing writer for Salon. His first book, “Chain of Title,” is out now. Follow him on Twitter at @ddayen.

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Amazon’s decision to pull out of NYC is a massive blow to corporate welfare

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Thousands of teachers march in the rain through Los Angeles, California on January 14, 2019, on the first day of the first teachers strike in 30 years targeting the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

“Welcome to the revolution”: LA teachers strike pits working-class power against privatization

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Steve Mnuchin (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Steve Mnuchin’s reign of destruction: From Wall Street to Trump’s treasury

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Trump appointees are pushing a deregulation plan that could dramatically erode consumer protections

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Postal banking could become a reality even without Congress

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Little piece of a very big pie: Looming writers strike is about much more than what’s on TV

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Sorry you lost your home: Americans deserve more than an apology for the foreclosure fraud epidemic

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Delegates protesting against the TPP at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)

Trouble for the TPP: Business groups’ desperate PR campaign signals possible failure for trade deal

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“It’s like a nightmare that just won’t go away”: The Corinthian Colleges scam demonstrates the madness of student debt

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Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward

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Hope for those in debt: Can a non-profit help put predatory payday lenders out of business?

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A crisis we can solve: Denying health care to undocumented immigrants is immoral, unjust and un-American

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What John Oliver missed about debt-forgiveness: Debtors helped could still get socked with tax bill — another sign of a broken system

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Verizon workers picket in Philadelphia, April 13, 2016. (AP/Matt Rourke)

New life for the labor movement: The Verizon deal is a huge victory for all workers

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Bernie says bail out Puerto Rico: Sanders details how the feds should rescue the territory as they did big banks

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How one woman beat the big banks: The amazing, true story about how Wall Street’s mortgage fraud unraveled

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How Koch Industries is scamming America: Investigation highlights a global web of tax avoidance

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Barack Obama (AP/Desmond Boyland)

The Obama administration’s Panama Papers misfire: Why new rules to curtail global tax avoidance could actually make things worse

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Yet another way borrowers are getting screwed: Inside the long-lasting disaster of American loan serviving

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One of the most popular arguments against raising the minimum wage is getting demolished

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Julian Castro (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

This election is blinding us to a Wall Street outrage: Inside the media’s negligent response to a foreclosure disaster

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Bernie Sanders, Janey Yellen (AP/Elaine Thompson/Susan Walsh)

The Fed needs a revolution: Why America’s central bank is failing — and how we can make it work for us

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This is much worse than the Panama Papers: How America became a world leader in tax avoidance

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Jerry Brown (Reuters/Max Whittaker)

California’s $15 minimum wage is a really big deal. Here’s what you need to know

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