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Category Archives: EMPLOYMENT
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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Corporate Profits Hit New Record, U.S. Workers Still Struggling
By Peter S. Goodman HUFFINGTON POST Happy days are back! During the summer months, corporations logged their biggest profits since the government started counting way back in the age of Elvis, and the economy expanded at a slightly faster pace … Continue reading
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Will Sit / Lie Stand?
Check out this map that allows us to see which neighborhoods voted in favor of Prop L, the Sit-Lie Law. People in the Haight voted NO, even though perception is that the proposition was generated from that neighborhood. This was … Continue reading
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Crises of Capitalism
In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane.
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They thought the party would last forever …
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I REMEMBER, SO I’M VOTING
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Voter Intimidation At McDonald’s: Employees Told That, Unless Republicans Win, They Won’t Get Raises Or Benefits
By Amanda Terkel HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — There may be something rotten at McDonald’s — and it’s not a year-old Happy Meal. The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a handbill in employees’ paychecks that threatened lower wages … Continue reading
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Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly
BY HOPE YEN Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The American suburb is no longer a refuge from poverty in cities. A pair of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paints a bleak economic picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over … Continue reading
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The Fed’s New Bubble (Masquerading as a Jobs Program)
BY ROBERT REICH The Huffington Post The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn’t really a bill at all. It’s the Fed’s attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy (“quantitative easing” … Continue reading
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Fat Race: Last year’s jeans won’t fit? Blame the free market.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING Foreign Policy Along with iPods and Hollywood blockbusters, another American trend is sweeping the world: corpulence. As countries grow wealthier, they’re also growing fatter. In China, the obesity rate is increasing by about 40 percent every … Continue reading
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