Wall St protests spread, Fed official sympathizes Reuters ...The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month with a few people expanded to protests in more than a dozen cities. They included Tampa, Florida; Trenton and Jersey City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Norfolk, Virginia, in the East; Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest; Houston, San Antonio and Austin in Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon, Seattle and Los Angeles in the West...
Hertz workers: We were suspended because of our religion KOMO News ...(Teamsters Local 117) ... claims the company leveled the suspensions without consulting the union first...
Bernie Sanders says six bank companies have assets equaling 60 percent of U.S. GDP Politifact ...Sanders’ math is correct -- in fact, the percentage he offers is actually a little low...
Wis. lawmakers hold off on election orders Associated Press ...State election officials backed off plans Thursday that would have allowed people to download personalized recall petitions from the Internet after Republicans complained the move would reshape Wisconsin's traditional recall process...
Early Voters Lining Up to Vote ‘No’ on Ohio’s Issue 2 AFL-CIO blog ...Election Day this year is set for Nov. 8, but in Ohio, where working family voters are mobilizing to repeal Gov. John Kasich’s (R) S.B. 5, by voting “No” on Issue 2 early voting got underway this week...
China bill advances in the Senate Politico ...The Senate on Thursday took a step closer to passing a bipartisan bill to crack down on unfair China currency practices, defeating a filibuster led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who objected that Republicans weren’t given a chance to offer amendments...
