• In These Times explores the wage-theft epidemic gripping America.
• Behind the Kitchen Door, a new book by Saru Jayaraman, chronicles the lives of low-wage restaurant workers and exposes the dirty kitchens, unsafe working conditions, and exploited workers behind the so-called sustainable food movement.
• Charter schools are privately-run public schools that promise to serve all students, but these institutions often impose such onerous application requirements that only elite students can hope to be admitted.
• Why did the BBC spike an expose of Jimmy Saville, a beloved TV presenter with a penchant for pedophilia?

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