Oklahoma prohibits towns from setting own minimum wage standards
No city or county in Oklahoma will be allowed to set their own mandatory minimum…
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Inequality gap between super rich and poor continues to widen
Things aren’t getting much better for the gap between America’s rich and poor: a new…
Washington Is Creating Jobs in China, Not America
By BENJAMIN CLEMENT The thing American politicians like about a free market is that it…
US Navy pulls 151 sailors from jobs following sexual assault review
The US Navy has announced that 151 sailors have been prohibited from working as sexual…
47% Of All Jobs Will Be Automated By 2034
By Michael Rundle Almost half of all jobs could be automated by computers within two…
NSA seeks to ‘convert’ students into intelligence work
The US National Security Agency has hundreds of teens and college students on its payroll,…
There are 22,000 homeless children in New York–the most since the Great Depression
By Andrea Elliott She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled…
UK police colluded with construction bosses
Independent police watchdog fingers police officers across the country for allegedly providing information on workers…
Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, Hagel says
By Craig Whitlock The Pentagon will recall most of its furloughed civilian workers in the…
TPP: The Most Sinister Corporate Power Grab Yet
By Diane Petryk-Bloom Imagine. While some of us are working to curtail fracking, assure GMO…
10 ways govt shutdown would hurt America
With the threat of a federal government shutdown hanging over the US economy, here is…
Osborne Plans Fuel Duty Freeze Until 2015
Fuel duty will be frozen until 2015 if the money is available, George Osborne has…
Detroit files for bankruptcy protection
By Nancy Kaffer The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal…
Secret TPP Deal Would Void Democracy
By Jane Slaughter Many people know NAFTA has cost U.S. workers 700,000 jobs. But how…
Jagger jabs Obama over NSA scandal
President Barack Obama didn’t attend The Rolling Stones concert in Washington, DC Monday night, but…
Wal-Mart’s everyday hiring strategy: Add more temps
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has in recent months been only hiring temporary workers at many of…
The World’s Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income
By Eric Zuessea The lead research economist at the World Bank, Branko Milanovic, will be…
Poverty hits America’s suburbs
Like many Americans who move to the suburbs, Tara Simons came to West Hartford, Conn.,…
Obama: ‘There is no debt crisis’
The United States is roughly $17 trillion in debt, but President Barack Obama says there’s…
New record: 15 percent of Americans on food stamps
Government dependability is continuing to rise, with a record-breaking number of Americans enrolled to receive…