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SOLUTIONS: Why Taxing the Rich Is Good for America
We could never post enough articles on this topic … By Loren Berlin Daily Finance Last week, Warren Buffett wrote an incredible opinion piece in The New York Times asking the federal government to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, … Continue reading
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All Work and No Pay: The dirty secret of the jobless recovery
YOU: doing more with less. CORPORATE PROFITS: up 22 percent. By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery Mother Jones Also read harrowing first-person tales of overwork and 12 charts on just how much is being demanded of American workers. On a … Continue reading
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WORD!
U.S. Corporations are looking to and investing in new markets outside of the United States. That doesn’t just mean they’ve moved the manufacturing outside of the U.S.; it means they no longer see the U.S. as the primary market they’re … Continue reading
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Kellogg Asks Mayan Group To Reconsider Toucan Sam-Like Logo
SAN FRANCISCO — Kellogg Co. is asking a group working to defend Mayan culture to reconsider its logo, saying consumers can confuse it with Toucan Sam, the mascot of its Froot Loops cereal. An attorney for the world’s largest cereal … Continue reading
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Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery
What political leaders around the globe and the mainstream media are failing to acknowledge is that all of these riots are related – they are the result of the glaring and undeniable inequity of power and resources that has been … Continue reading
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Capitalism’s Failure …
A year ago I wrote the following on this blog: Where on earth do the folks who are predicting that the economy is not going to slip into a deeper recession/depression get the crack they’re smoking? Where do they think … Continue reading
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21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor
In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit. By Rania Khalek AlterNet There is one group of American workers so disenfranchised that corporations are able to get away with … Continue reading
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Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse
By Robert Reich We now live in parallel universes. One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The … Continue reading
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Hyatt Hotel Fries Union Protestors With Heat Lamps
By Jen Sabella HUFFINGTON POST On Thursday morning, hundreds of unionized hotel workers gathered outside of Chicago’s Park Hyatt. After nearly two years of negotiations, they demanded a new contract, protested working conditions and decried the company’s alleged plans to … Continue reading
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GOP Senator: Obama Will Cave On Debt
By Michael McAuliff HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Republicans are willing to push President Obama to the wall with their budget-slashing bill to raise the debt ceiling because they are convinced he will capitulate on his veto threat and sign it, … Continue reading
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