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May 2, 2012 -
A watchdog group has filed a petition with North Carolina regulators seeking to change the way the power giant sets its rates, which dramatically favor energy-hungry data centers run by well-heeled companies like Google, Apple and Facebook over residential customers and small businesses.
April 3, 2012 -
The recent Senate vote to maintain oil company subsidies didn't fall just along party lines -- it also fell along money lines.
December 12, 2011 -
A new report identifies 68 Fortune 500 companies that managed to pay no state income tax in at least one year between 2008 and 2010 -- despite posting a total of nearly $117 billion in pre-tax U.S. profits during those no-tax years.
September 16, 2011 -
President Obama unveiled his $447 billion jobs plan last week during an address to a joint session of Congress, calling on members to pass the plan "right away."
August 2, 2011 -
Under the U.S. debt ceiling agreement expected to be signed into law by President Obama today, initial cuts to federal discretionary spending over the next decade: about $1 trillion
March 1, 1989 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 17 No. 1, "Meltdown on Main Street." Find more from that issue here.
