Topic: Capital & Main

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gig economy workers screwed

Julie Gutman Dickinson - Capital & Main
FILE - This July 10, 2008 file photo made with a fisheye lens shows ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle, seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. In the annual Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. a record emerged for sea ice, which appears when Arctic Ocean water freezes. If governments are serious about the global warming targets they adopted in Paris, scientists say they have two options: eliminating fossil fuels immediately or finding ways to undo their damage to the climate system in the future. The first is politically impossible _ the world is still hooked on using oil, coal and natural gas _ which leaves the option of a major cleanup of the atmosphere later this century. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) (AP)

climate change is personal

Rev. Jim Conn - Capital & Main
FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2015 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. A new report is confirming that fewer people than expected are taking advantage of subsidies to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office study, based on updated enrollment figures up through last month, says that 11 million people are likely to purchase subsidized policies under the health care law, down about 4 million from estimates issued early last year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) (AP)

health care nightmare in CA

Sasha Abramsky - Capital & Main

Charter schools' dire lesson

Bobbi Murray - Capital & Main
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Gary Cohn - Capital & Main