Florida prison privatization stalls in legislature Reuters ...A proposal to privatize at least 26 prisons in south Florida is facing stiff opposition in the Florida Senate and may not have the votes to pass, the chamber's president and chief backer said on Tuesday...
Labor says 'right-to-work' impact too soon to gauge NWI Times ...The Indiana Department of Labor will promulgate rules within the next six months pertaining to right-to-work, said agency spokesman Robert Dittmer. However, he said if a situation required rules to be developed on an emergency basis, the Department of Labor has the ability to do so...
Arizona’s vicious war on workers Alternet ...Gov. Jan Brewer is pushing a radical anti-union bill that makes Wisconsin's law look lax...
Occupy D.C. to protest CPAC Politico ...The Occupy Wall Street movement in Washington announced on Tuesday, just days before the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference is set to kick off on Thursday, that it is planning to send a clear message to the “gathering of bigots, media mouthpieces, corrupt politicians and their one percent elite puppet masters...”
Bernanke Says 8.3% Unemployment Understates Weakness in U.S. Labor Market Bloomberg ...“There are also a lot of people who are either out of the labor force because they don’t think they can find work” or in part- time jobs...
What would happen if the value of the dollar were lowered? Manufacture This ...Baker predicts that a lower dollar could lead to an increase in output by the U.S. manufacturing sector of more than 40 percent, resulting in the creation of millions of new manufacturing jobs...
