Number of the Week: Youth Unemployment at 22.9%? Wall Street Journal ...many graduates are carrying hefty debt burdens, and those who can find work are often being forced to low-skill jobs...
Shocking study reveals mortality rates for women are increasing in over 43% of U.S. counties compared to just 3.4% for men Daily Mail ...1,334 counties in the U.S. had increased mortality rates for women in the 14 year period while only 108 counties had increased rates for men...
Corporate evil creeps up unobserved PressTV ...if you thought the World Trade Organization (which forced the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act) and the North American Free Trade Agreement are bad then the TPP is awful!...
Obama Administration Takes Aim at TPP Countries' Public Interest Policies in New Report Public Citizen ...The 406-page USTR report indicts a wide array of public health policies, financial regulations, politically sensitive manufacturing and agricultural policies and even religious standards as “trade barriers” that should be dismantled...
Task force will aim to ease farmers’ TPP worries The Japan Times ...Farmers say they fear their livelihoods will be devastated by an influx of cheap imported produce if Japan joins the TPP...
Money-Laundering Banks Still Get a Pass From U.S. Bloomberg ... the largest financial companies are unlikely to face criminal actions or meaningful sanctions. The Department of Justice has decided that these banks are too big to prosecute to the full extent of the law, though why this also gets employees and executives off the hook remains a mystery. And the Federal Reserve refuses to rescind bank licenses, undermining the credibility, legitimacy and stability of the financial system...
Scientists angry about budget cuts come out of the lab and onto the streets McClatchy ...Thousands of prominent cancer and other medical researchers will rally in the nation’s capital Monday to protest federal funding cuts that began several years ago and were accelerated by additional forced reductions beginning to take effect under the congressionally mandated process of sequestration...
China, Destroyer-of-Worlds Forbes ...the Chinese government is aware of this, yet is willing to lose money on its capital investments in order to provide jobs for people moving to the city...
Union members opposed to "Right to Work" legislation in Missouri campaign against the measure KY3 News ...Members of "We Are Missouri" canvassed several Springfield neighborhoods on Saturday--all in Representative Burlison's district,--to campaign against the legislation...
Emergency Manager Protest Jams Up Traffic On I-75 CBS Detroit ...For more than an hour Friday morning, a section of southbound I-75 looked pretty much like a parking lot. Motorists were riding the brakes along the freeway near Mack Avenue in protest of the state’s financial takeover of Detroit...
Job slump is Walker's fault (opinion) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...in the first year of Walker's budget - July 2011 through June 2012 - public employees gave back over $850 million in take-home pay. This contracted the economy in every corner of the state, anywhere there's a public school teacher, garbage collector, county jail or public park...
