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Michigan Officials Seek to Block Court-Ordered Bottled Water Delivery in Flint
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report State officials in Michigan asked a federal court in Detroit on Thursday to block a court order requiring bottled ... -
Psychologists Uncover New Productivity Hack: Chilling Out
By Jordan E. Rosenfeld, Health.Good.is Perfectionists get things done, right? They’re more detail-oriented, meticulous, and effective than the rest of us—or so we’ve been led ... -
High-Dollar Prescribers Proliferate in Medicare’s Drug Program
Forty-one health providers prescribed more than $5 million in drugs in 2011. Last year, that jumped to 514. “The trends in this space are troubling ... -
Public Contracts Shrouded in Secrecy
By Miranda S. Spivack The government in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was desperate to find ways to fund its pension plan for city employees, which was about ... -
Finding an Alternative to Child Marriage for Girls in Rajasthan
Usha Choudhary dodged being married off at age 13 by taking on five jobs and working morning to night. Now she runs a leading charity ... -
Life And Debt: Profiles of People Caught in Student Loan Crisis
Last November 15th, 42 million Americans owe a combined $1.3 trillion in student debt. For many, student loans have been a ticket to a good education ... -
India's Efforts to Protect Children Fail Due Lack of Budget - Nobel Laureate
By Nita Bhalla (Thomson Reuters Foundation) NEW DELHI - India's efforts to improve the lives of its children are failing due to meagre government spending on ... -
Third of Children in Poor Countries Miss School to Work: Research Finds
By Sebastien Malo (Thomson Reuters Foundation) NEW YORK - Roughly a third of children in developing nations are forced to miss school because they must work, ... -
These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
The economists are leveraging their academic prestige with secret reports justifying corporate concentration. Their predictions are often wrong and consumers pay the price. By Jesse Eisinger ... -
Thousands of Potentially Wrongful Convictions; Years of Delayed Action
Four years after a Massachusetts crime lab chemist confessed to tainting evidence, more than 20,000 defendants still don’t know if their drug convictions will stand. ...