The Rich and the Rest of Us in the United States Economic Populist ...Most of America is poor, broke, and getting poorer. So shows new Census statistics for 2011...
Southern Europe Is About to Enter a ‘Lost Decade’ Wall Street Journal ...Southern European countries are in the early stages of a major deleveraging that will produce a Depression-like environment...
More Than 300 Killed in Pakistani Factory Fires New York Times ...The fires immediately revived long-running questions about the regulation of Pakistan’s manufacturing sector, centered in Karachi, and of the vital textiles industry in particular...
Do America’s Corporations Care How Much American Workers Earn? Dissent Magazine ...despite worries about sagging consumer confidence and shrinking paychecks, business leaders seem unconcerned about the declining standard of living of middle-class America, or about the growing number of American families slipping into poverty...
Union Slams Detroit Three's Pension Offer? Pension Pulse ...The Canadian Auto Workers’ threat to walk off the job at all three Detroit automakers if a deal cannot be reached by next week’s deadline has led to more constructive dialogue with General Motors and Ford over the past week...
Hostess workers in St. Louis and elsewhere to learn fate on Friday St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...A spokesman for Teamsters Local 688, representing about 170 Hostess drivers, said Wednesday that he is not optimistic about the outcome of a nationwide union vote to determine the future of a baking company with a lineage dating to the late 19th century...
