Shock Doctrine, American-Style: Hurricane Sandy Devastation Used to Push for Sale of Public Infrastructure to Investors Naked Capitalism ...The wreckage from Hurricane Sandy hasn’t even been cleared, yet financial entrepreneurs are looking to profit from it...
Nonpartisan Tax Report Withdrawn After G.O.P. Protest New York Times ...The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper’s findings and wording...
With paychecks, size matters (opinion) Los Angeles Times ...Unemployment is still too high, but we also need to focus on the problem of declining pay and the shrinking middle class...
Mexico is now a top producer of engineers, but where are jobs? Washington Post ...while the number of graduates in engineering has soared during the Calderon presidency, the number of Mexicans employed as engineers has grown only slightly, from 1.1 million in 2006 to 1.3 million in 2012...
Romney's Delphi scandal involves his undisclosed 2009 taxes & Bain Capital DailyKos ...Mitt Romney made a fortune off of the auto-bailout by investing in Delphi and screwing those workers. And instead of using its extra capital to do right by the American worker, Delphi just finished buying factories in Asia that make car parts, for the same amount of money Delphi cost those workers' pensions...
Gritty New York faces grimy mess: Rotten meat, failing toilets NBC News ... The sanitation department was also handling hurricane debris cleanup citywide...
