Concerns about TPP's IP Chapter Grow Among Civil Liberties and Human Rights Groups Public Citizen ...As the 14th round of TPP negotiations begins in Leesburg, apprehension about how the intellectual property (IP) chapter could affect free speech, global health and human rights continues to grow among prominent watchdog groups...
Flabbergasted Rand Paul Learns Public Employment Decreased Under Obama ThinkProgress ... federal government (jobs) ... did tick up just slightly: 2.77 million at the end 2008 versus 2.8 million currently. But add in state and local government jobs, and the hard number for government employment dropped by around 600,000 after Bush left office...
School's out in Chicago as teachers strike, parents scramble Reuters ...public school teachers staged the first strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama's administration...
City oven-maker to close, idle 200 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ...A union leader held up the decision as proof that right-to-work isn’t the answer for Indiana. Manitowoc Foodservice... is creating a new American Ovens Division headquarters in Cleveland...
Reform group says Florida in No. 1 in voter disenfranchisement The Current ...According to The Sentencing Project, a group promoting criminal justice reforms, about a tenth of the voting-age population in Florida is not allowed to vote because they are ex-felons, the highest rate in the nation...
Why Are the NFL Refs Locked Out? It's All in the Game The Nation ...It was Minnesota Viking’s punter Chris Kluwe who took to Twitter and said what has been so painfully obvious through three weeks of the National Football League’s pre-season: “The NFL really needs to kiss and make up with the refs. These replacements are horrible. Frankly, it’s kind of embarrassing...”
