Calls to raise minimum wage return with Labor Day Associated Press ...A recurring call to raise the minimum wage has returned in the run-up to Labor Day in the form of national rallies and a new report that finds Michigan ranks second-to-worst among states for wage growth during the past 30 years...
The Battle for a Living Wage Goes On naked capitalism ...The battle for a living wage for the nation’s poorest workers is set against the backdrop of mass unemployment and the highest level of economic inequality in the U.S. in almost a century...
10 fastest-growing jobs in the USA USA Today ...For both petroleum engineers and service unit operators in the resource industry, the nation's two fastest-growing jobs, growth likely is due largely to changes in the energy sector...
The 7 Best Paying Jobs With Only High School Diploma 24/7 Wall Street ...Subway and streetcar conductors, fashion designers, power distributors and dispatchers...
Taxpayer Dollars Paid A Third Of Richest Corporate CEOs: Report Huffington Post ...More than one-third of the nation's highest-paid CEOs from the past two decades led companies that were subsidized by American taxpayers, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank...
The Hazard of Free-Trade Tobacco New York Times ...Give thanks to Malaysia for heading off, at least temporarily, an American effort to weaken the ability of countries to impose stiff rules on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products within their own borders...
Eurozone unemployment steady at 12.1% in July - as it happened The Guardian ...Eurozone figures show youth unemployment edging higher...
Federal Court Sides With ACLU in No Fly List Lawsuit ACLU ...The suit challenges the process for attempting to get off the list as unfair, inadequate, and unconstitutional. The decision also asked the ACLU and the government to submit additional information about the No Fly List redress procedure in order to help the court decide the ultimate question of whether it satisfies the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process...
State budget is gold mine for rich, shaft for all others (opinion) Toledo Blade ...the richest one percent of Ohioans will net a yearly tax cut of nearly $6,000, Middle class taxpayers who earn $51,000 will see a whopping cut of $9. And some of the poorest Ohioans will see their taxes go up...
Floridians finding jobs, but often at low wages Sun-Sentinel ...wages are stagnant or dropping, except for the top 10 percent of households, while health-care and other costs are rising...
Taxpayer Dollars Paid A Third Of Richest Corporate CEOs: Report Huffington Post ...More than one-third of the nation's highest-paid CEOs from the past two decades led companies that were subsidized by American taxpayers, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank...
The Hazard of Free-Trade Tobacco New York Times ...Give thanks to Malaysia for heading off, at least temporarily, an American effort to weaken the ability of countries to impose stiff rules on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products within their own borders...
Eurozone unemployment steady at 12.1% in July - as it happened The Guardian ...Eurozone figures show youth unemployment edging higher...
Federal Court Sides With ACLU in No Fly List Lawsuit ACLU ...The suit challenges the process for attempting to get off the list as unfair, inadequate, and unconstitutional. The decision also asked the ACLU and the government to submit additional information about the No Fly List redress procedure in order to help the court decide the ultimate question of whether it satisfies the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of due process...
State budget is gold mine for rich, shaft for all others (opinion) Toledo Blade ...the richest one percent of Ohioans will net a yearly tax cut of nearly $6,000, Middle class taxpayers who earn $51,000 will see a whopping cut of $9. And some of the poorest Ohioans will see their taxes go up...
Floridians finding jobs, but often at low wages Sun-Sentinel ...wages are stagnant or dropping, except for the top 10 percent of households, while health-care and other costs are rising...
