workers compensation
This is the NFL's most self-congratulating weekend, which is quite considerable given the other 51 weeks of the year. But between the Super Bowl (is there a single American rooting.
Above: An opportunity to profit Michael Grabell, last noted here for his great piece on temp workers in modern America, has a vomit-inducing piece on the excesses of workers compensation.

The Obama administration is really going out with a bang when it comes to the American working class. First there's the Trans-Pacific Partnership and now the administration is seeking to reduce worker compensation benefits for some federal workers. Specifically, Obama is looking to reduce benefits...
Workers compensation is under attack. Although the system has never provided benefits at a level that really makes up for the suffering of an injured worker (the only fair system.
On March 10, 1925, the New York Times first reported the story of the so-called Radium Girls, as U.S. Radium Company employee Marguerite Carlough had sued her employer for $75,000.