Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers New York Times ...Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars over the last year buying homes in some of the nation’s most depressed markets. The influx has been so great, and the resulting price gains so big, that ordinary buyers are feeling squeezed out. Some are already wondering if prices will slump anew if the big money stops flowing...
18 Of America's Biggest Companies Using Tax Havens To Skirt $92 Billion In U.S. Taxes: CTJ Huffington Post ...Apple may be getting all the attention from lawmakers and the news media for its offshore tax practices, but a new report finds that other major companies are using similar tactics to avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars in profits...
This Is Capitalism Now: How a Coal Company Bilked 20,000 Workers Out of Health Benefits Atlantic Monthly ...Corporate America is coming for your retirement...
Students Petition Sallie Mae for Transparency and a Better Deal on Student Loans Center for Media and Democracy ..."Sallie Mae doesn’t exist to protect students, and they are not willing to work with students. They exist to profit off of us."...
Attorney general sues HSBC over foreclosures Buffalo News ...Thousands of New Yorkers have likely been denied a better chance to get their homes out from under foreclosure by HSBC Bank USA and its Depew mortgage operations facility, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is charging in a new lawsuit...
Why pay non-farmers farm subsidies? Washington Post ...The building is one of the finest on Central Park West. Celebrity residents. Park views. Units priced at up to $24 million. It is most definitely not a farm. But last year, the U.S. government sent $9,070 in farm subsidies to an apartment here. Even the woman who got that money isn’t exactly sure why...
Labor could hold keys to RI governor's office Boston Globe ...Support from organized labor could prove pivotal as three of Rhode Island’s best known politicians eye what’s shaping up as the most contentious governor’s race in decades...
Kansas Legislature Approves Higher Sales Tax, Lower Income Tax Huffington Post ...The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature approved a permanent sales tax hike as part of a plan to replace the state's income taxes with revenue from increases in other tax rates...
Union accuses CTA of violating labor contract Chicago Tribune ...The CTA is violating a labor contract it signed in November with its largest union so the transit agency can save millions of dollars annually, leaders of the Amalgamated Transit Union charged Monday during a rally outside CTA headquarters...
Teamsters Appeal Court Ruling on Mexican Trucks IBT ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters yesterday asked for a rehearing on its challenge to the Department of Transportation’s cross-border trucking program...
Hoffa on Schultz: TX Gov's Veto of "Made in America" Ridiculous IBT ...In this video, Teamsters President Jim Hoffa says we need more products to be "Made in America," not fewer, and questions Rick Perry's decision to veto "Made in America" legislation...
Republic Fires Pilot Union Head, Draws Teamsters Ire Aviation International News ...Officials for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters charged Republic Airlines management last month with violating training rules and the recommendations of its FAA check airmen by firing the president of the carrier’s local Teamsters chapter, Craig Moffatt...
Drivers, mechanics at JBS Souderton to vote on union Phillyburbs ...Eighty-five employees at JBS Souderton, the meatpacking plant in Franconia, PA will vote Wednesday on joining Teamsters Local 830...
Teamsters Local 693 Endorse Rich David for Mayor News Channel 34 ...Teamsters Local 693 announced their official endorsement of Republican candidate Rich David for Mayor of the City of Binghamton, New York...
Union accuses CTA of violating labor contract Chicago Tribune ...The CTA is violating a labor contract it signed in November with its largest union so the transit agency can save millions of dollars annually, leaders of the Amalgamated Transit Union charged Monday during a rally outside CTA headquarters...
Teamsters Appeal Court Ruling on Mexican Trucks IBT ...The International Brotherhood of Teamsters yesterday asked for a rehearing on its challenge to the Department of Transportation’s cross-border trucking program...
Hoffa on Schultz: TX Gov's Veto of "Made in America" Ridiculous IBT ...In this video, Teamsters President Jim Hoffa says we need more products to be "Made in America," not fewer, and questions Rick Perry's decision to veto "Made in America" legislation...
Republic Fires Pilot Union Head, Draws Teamsters Ire Aviation International News ...Officials for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters charged Republic Airlines management last month with violating training rules and the recommendations of its FAA check airmen by firing the president of the carrier’s local Teamsters chapter, Craig Moffatt...
Drivers, mechanics at JBS Souderton to vote on union Phillyburbs ...Eighty-five employees at JBS Souderton, the meatpacking plant in Franconia, PA will vote Wednesday on joining Teamsters Local 830...
Teamsters Local 693 Endorse Rich David for Mayor News Channel 34 ...Teamsters Local 693 announced their official endorsement of Republican candidate Rich David for Mayor of the City of Binghamton, New York...
