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Bernie Sanders (Reuters/Jonathan Drake)

Bernie does have a plan to break up the banks: Enough with the handwringing over that Daily News interview

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Mitch McConnell (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP’s inane war against Dodd-Frank

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Can Obama really rein in college costs?

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GOP’s go-to economics study debunked

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Why does anyone listen to Jeffrey Sachs?

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Obama’s blueprint for strengthening financial reform

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Four histories of the right’s 47 percent theory

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Stop calling student loans “financial aid”

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks at a campaign event in Bow, N.H., Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

New GOP plan, same as old GOP plan

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What’s in Mitt’s secret housing plan?

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Romney’s failed unemployment strategy

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Romney’s impossible tax plan

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President Obama signing the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act in April. (Reuters/Jason Reed)

Are job creators a myth?

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Welcome to the 1 percent recovery

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An employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., waiting for the front gate to be opened. The detention center is operated on contract by Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America. (AP)

The privatization trap

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At Occupy DC, a protester holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt on October 6, 2011 (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

You will never pay off college

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Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests chant outside 740 Park Avenue, home to billionaire David Koch, in New York (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)

What do the “1 percent” actually do?

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