Suicide is now the cause of injury-related death in America, and the economy may be to blame Washington Monthly ...An extremely disturbing new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that suicides have replaced car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S...
Foxconn China plant closed after clash involving 2,000 Reuters ...Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple's iPhones and makes components for top global electronics companies, closed a plant in northern China on Monday after about 2,000 workers staged a riot at a company dormitory...
400 Richest Americans Saw Wealth Grow 13 Percent To $1.7 Trillion ThinkProgress ...At the same time that their collective wealth hits new heights, the tax rate for the Forbes 400 has remained low, thanks to the high-income Bush tax cuts, which slashed the rate on investments and capital gains...
Wall Street Rolling Back Another Key Piece of Financial Reform Rolling Stone ...if you’re underwriting a municipal bond for a city or a town, and you happen also to give the city or town advice about some deadly swap deal that will put the city into bankruptcy for the next thousand years, you don’t have a fiduciary responsibility to that city or town...
Unions Seek To Entrench Power In Michigan Initiatives Investors Business Daily ...The unions seek to bring home health workers under their wing, keep emergency managers of local governments from changing union contracts, and make collective bargaining a constitutional right...
Nick A. Pico, 70, member, business agent of Teamsters Philadelphia Inquirer ...Nick A. Pico, 70, of Richboro, a longtime member and business agent of Teamsters Local 107 and a tireless pursuer of self-improvement, died of lung cancer on Thursday, Sept. 20, at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne...
