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    Jake Johnson

    Jake Johnson

    Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

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    New polling results published Monday show that a majority of U.S. voters see corporate profiteering as a key driver of inflation.
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    Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho blocked Sen. Bernie Sanders' attempt Wednesday to force a vote on legislation that would slash prescription drug prices.
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    Amazon utilized several perfectly legal mechanisms to avoid paying $5.2 billion in federal corporate income taxes in 2021.
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    Major pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. hiked the prices of nearly 870 prescription medications during the first month of the new year.
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    A federal judge late Thursday blocked the Biden administration's massive oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
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    The 10 wealthiest billionaires in the U.S. have added roughly $1 billion to their collective fortune every day — or around $12,600 per second — since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has kicked off the new year by hiking the prices of more than 120 of its drugs.
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    'This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it's an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for the best.'
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    The New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck is facing accusations of price gouging.
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    Hours after President Joe Biden called Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla a "good friend," Politico revealed that the pharmaceutical executive has been urging his employees to fight Democrats' plan to let Medicare directly negotiate prescription drug prices.
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    'For years, politicians have been saying that the federal government can interfere in the price of medicines and patients won’t suffer any harm.'
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    CEO pay in the U.S. rose by a staggering 1,322% between 1978 and 2020.
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    People the world over have suffered record-shattering temperatures and deadly extreme weather.
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    Amazon announced it has agreed to acquire Hollywood film, television studio MGM for nearly $8.5 billion.
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    CEO pay averaged $15.3 million in 2020, up 29% from 2019.
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    U.S. telecom companies pumped millions of dollars into a 'secret campaign.'
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    The new privacy policy 'will give Facebook even more power to extract money from WhatsApp communications.'
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    'Everyone should be writing the White House to stop this release.'
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    'Climate protection is not nice to have; climate protection is our basic right and that's official now.'
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    U.S. consumers pay two to four times more for prescription drugs than other rich countries.
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    U.S. Postal Service is monitoring social media posts as part of a surveillance operation known as iCOP.
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    JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo have provided more money for the fossil fuel industry than any other banks in the world.
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    "The ultra-wealthy play by different rules than the rest of us."
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    The wonderful Rep. Katie Porter provides a signal moment in congressional history.
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    If Wall Street really believed in defending our democracy ...
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