The greatest war in American history turns 50 today. That's the War on Poverty. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House and Senate, my fellow Americans: I will be brief, for our time is necessarily short and our agenda is already long. Last year's...
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Former NLRB member Craig Becker on an extremely disturbing decision by the 5th Circuit that effectively creates what he terms a "rightless workplace." Unnoticed except by employment lawyers, the United.
Jamie Dimon's Christmas card basically sums up the New Gilded Age. You'd also think for all that money Dimon could at least afford the proper number of buttons on his.
Finally we are getting our lazy welfare recipients away from their t-bones and out of their Cadillacs. This will teach them: An emergency federal program that acts as a lifeline for 1.3 million jobless workers will end on Saturday, drastically curtailing government support for the...
Speaking of the New Gilded Age, Michael Bloomberg sure is the perfect plutocrat/political leader for it: It was only a matter of time — assuming Michael Bloomberg couldn't run out.
Look, I can't see why everyone is after Steve Stockman just because his campaign headquarters was an overcrowded sweatshop where volunteers lived and worked without safety precautions and was declared.
Distressing that this joke actually resonates: According to Kennedy, one of the most pressing concerns associated with rapid aristocratization is the drastic transformation of the metropolitan landscape in a way that fails to maximize livable space. A three-block section of [Chicago neighborhood] Wicker Park that...
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and.
Long-term unemployment? Who cares about long-term unemployment? Things are great! The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index stalled after hitting record highs on Monday as investors.
Got to give it to Wal-Mart--like the Henry Clay Fricks and J.P. Morgans of old, it lays the system of inequality out for everyone to see: A Cleveland Wal-Mart store is holding a food drive — for its own employees. "Please donate food items so...
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is a sociopath: What we’re hearing from the Boeing Machinists right now isn’t just the usual labor-management posturing. It’s a primal scream of the middle class..
What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn't seen since the days of patent.