U.S. banks fight back against LIBOR accusations IFLR ...Class action lawsuits before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York argued that international banks colluded at the expense of investors, community banks, municipalities and investment funds...
Brazil to boost import taxes again to help local industry Reuters ...This is the latest in a string of steps taken by President Dilma Rousseff to fend off competition from foreign producers, which has hit local industries and dragged down an economy that until recently was the star among emerging market nations...
Strickland: "Mitt Romney Has So Little Economic Patriotism That Even His Money Needs A Passport" Buzzfeed Politics ..."If Mitt was Santa Claus, he'd fire the reindeer and outsource the elves," he shouted, as he shouted his entire speech...
Voter Suppression: The Confederacy Rises Again The Nation ...Eight of eleven states in the former Confederacy have passed restrictive voting laws since the 2010 election, as part of a broader war on voting undertaken by the GOP. Some of these changes have been mitigated by recent federal and state court rulings against the GOP, yet it’s still breathtaking to consider the different ways Republicans have sought to suppress the minority vote in the region...
N.J. food pantries are depleted Newsworks New Jersey ...food supplies are down now while the demand is increasing. "It's not letting up," DiChiara said. "If there's a recovery the people that we're seeing are not experiencing it..."
Area union leader humbled by salute South Bend Tribune ...For Bob Warnock Jr., 75, the road to union leadership was anything but direct...
Teamsters win dispute with Northumberland County The Daily Item ...Eight months after Teamsters Local 764 filed a grievance challenging the termination of Northumberland County Assistant District Attorney John Muncer, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board reinstated Muncer and ruled that he was entitled to about $20,000 in back pay...
