Fed's Raskin Bemoans Low-Wage Nature of Jobs Recovery Reuters ...Too much of the recent growth in employment has been concentrated in low-wage and temporary jobs, leaving the recovery on shaky ground, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday...
While Cyprus Sinks, France and Slovenia Start to Founder naked capitalism ...As the Cyprus restructuring drama has moved into high gear, it’s obscured news of a serious deterioration in the French economy and the weakened condition of Slovenia, which has a population and GDP roughly 1.5 times as large as that of Cyprus...
Friends of Wells Fargo Typo Victim Larry Delassus Suing For Wrongful Death LA Weekly ...A disabled Navy veteran who was in and out of the hospital, Delassus began receiving notices in March of 2009 stating that he was delinquent on Los Angeles County property taxes on his home … The bank was wrong -- Delassus was paid ahead by nearly six months...
Illinois gets $808 million train business Walker destroyed here The Political Environment ...When Scott Walker and his legislative supplicants killed high-speed train development and expansion for Wisconsin in 2011, they also broke a contract to build train equipment for several states at a developing Milwaukee factory in the economically-depressed 30th. St. corridor...
Pension overhaul hurts middle class (LTE) Tampa Bay Times ...about 800,000 Floridians benefit from the Florida Retirement System pension plan. Rational businessmen should be wary of a proposal that undercuts the spending power of 800,000 Floridians...
LePage: Gas project excludes workers Portland Press Herald ...Gov. Paul Le-Page on Thursday criticized a natural gas company that plans to invest $350 million to bring a natural gas pipeline through central Maine, saying a labor agreement the company adopted will favor unions and discriminate against most Maine construction workers...
The Prevailing Wage is now on Snyder's menu Detroit News ...With the ink barely dry on Michigan’s new right to work law, Mitten State media seem hungry for another knock-down, drag out fight between the state’s Republican Majority of Everything and Big Labor – this time over the state’s prevailing wage law...
Citizens Gather to Oppose ‘Anti-Worker’ Legislation KSMU ...A small group of Springfield citizens gathered in front of the Chamber of Commerce Thursday to discuss what they call anti-worker legislation...
House Passes Liquor Bill PoliticsPA ...Following seven hours of debate on Thursday, the Pennsylvania House approved HB 790 105-90. This is the furthest that any legislation has made it through the Pennsylvania General Assembly since the end of Prohibition eighty years ago...
Reverend Jesse Jackson and two Michigan congressmen challenge emergency financial manager law ABC News ...Democrats John Conyers and Gary Peters sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office asking for an audit. The letter suggests emergency managers mismanaged other cities in Michigan and perhaps, federal funds...
