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Category Archives: EMPLOYMENT
SOLUTIONS: Grocery Store Workers Go On Hunger Strike Over Stagnant Wages
By Dave Jamieson HUFFINGTON POST All night long, Jose Garcia performs his job while surrounded by food — a painful bit of irony, he says. The 52-year-old Mexican immigrant works the overnight shift cleaning floors inside a Cub Foods store … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: Hospital Workers, Facing Layoffs, Launch Counterattack On Executives
By Dave Jamieson and Ryan Grim HUFFINGTON POST According to Woodhouse, the union’s research into executive pay at Salinas uncovered the fact that the hospital’s outgoing CEO, Sam Downing, will receive a nearly $4 million payout, most of it in … Continue reading
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The Corporate State Wins Again
The Corporate State Wins Again, by Chris Hedges, Published on Monday, April 25, 2011 by TruthDig.com When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, EVIL CORPORATIONS, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, GREED, Health, HOMELAND SECURITY
Tagged CAPITAL, capitalism, Chris Hedges, corporate capitalism, corporate money, DEMOCRACY, Democratic Leadership, permanent underclass, The Corporate State, underclass
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At Least We Still Can Go Broke
I got a letter today from Alan Grayson. I don’t think he’ll mind me publishing it here since he is running for Congress. But – I think CIO readers will find this fascinating. Dear Cheryl: Unless you’ve been living in … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITAL, CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, POLICY, Tax cuts, Tax cuts for the rich
Tagged austerity, CAPITAL, DEMOCRACY, Democratic Leadership, government shutdown, Republicans
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Must See: Inside Job
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It’s the Inequality, Stupid
By Dave Gilson and Carolyn Perot Mother Jones A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. … Continue reading
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Who is more valuable: One hedge fund manager or one teacher?
By Robert Reich HUFFINGTON POST Last year, America’s top thirteen hedge-fund managers earned an average of $1 billion each. One of them took home $5 billion. Much of their income is taxed as capital gains — at 15 percent — … Continue reading
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Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short
By E.S. Browning The Wall Street Journal They were a gold mine for money-management firms. In 30 years, the 401(k) went from a small program to a multi-trillion-dollar industry supporting thousands of financial planners and money managers. The 401(k) generation … Continue reading
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Obama’s Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor
By Arthur Delaney HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — As Democrats and Republicans wrangle over fiscal austerity and the shape of the 2012 federal budget, the White House is targeting programs in the $4 trillion budget that benefit low-income Americans. It’s a … Continue reading
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Gap Between Rich And Poor Named 8th Wonder Of The World
The Onion “It’s breathtaking,” said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a longtime champion and benefactor of the rift’s conservation. “After all we’ve been through in recent years, there’s no greater privilege than watching it grow bigger and bigger each day. … Continue reading
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Should GE’s Jeffrey Immelt Really Be Leading Our Job Creation Strategy?
By Scott Paul HUFFINGTON POST You would have difficulty finding a company that has outsourced more jobs and closed more American factories than GE. There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO … Continue reading
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The Progressive Case Against Obama’s New Team
By Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research HUFFINGTON POST This is the small matter that leads progressives to be unhappy with the renewed dominance of the Clinton economic team. If progressives had devised policies that … Continue reading
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For The Jobless, Cold Comfort In “Improving” Economy
By Lila Shapiro HUFFINGTON POST New York — This week, the economy flashed multiple signs of improvement, from encouragingly brisk expansion on the factory floor to a slowdown in layoffs. Yet for the 15 million Americans still officially without work, … Continue reading
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Trends in Income Inequality: The Endgame Is Extreme Civil Unrest
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The Day of Reckoning Is Here
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Wall Street Set for Best Two Years Ever, Thanks To Bailout
William Alden THE HUFFINGTON POST Two agonizing years for the U.S. economy have been some of the best years on record for Wall Street. After first receiving billions in taxpayer aid, and now ultracheap funding from the Federal Reserve, Wall … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: AgenKultur
Great organization in Indonesia! AGENKULTUR Agenkultur born in a hysterical space of billboards among the massive icons of globalization and in the crowd of local culture stagnancy. It grew up among the fast food industry, phantasm of high class society … Continue reading
A Frightening Look At The Labor Market Recovery
By Ryan McCarthy HUFFINGTON POST After Friday’s grim jobs data, which showed that the U.S. added just 39,000 net jobs in November, it’s worth noting again just how severely the recession has impacted the job market. This disturbing chart — … Continue reading
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Senate Republicans Screw The Poor and Middle-Class While Offering Handout To The Rich
SENATE REPUBLICANS DEFEAT REAUTHORIZATION OF JOBLESS AID, TAX CUTS By Arthur Delaney HUFFINGTON POST Senate Republicans and a handful of Democrats Saturday defeated a bill to reauthorize unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and a plethora of tax provisions for … Continue reading
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