Welcome to the New America: Low-Wage Nation Common Dreams ...More and more, Americans are trapped in the uncertainty and injustice that immigrant workers know all too well, whether they’re here on temporary work visas cleaning luxury condos or undocumented and scrambling for daily construction jobs. Increasingly, from an economic standpoint, office parks and store aisles in America are coming to resemble the street corners where day laborers gather and the labor camps where guest workers are trapped...
The Strange Case of American Inequality Project Syndicate ...unless something – and it will need to be something major – returns the US to its pre-2008 growth trajectory, future economic historians will not regard the Great Depression as the worst business-cycle disaster of the industrial age. It is we who are living in their worst case...
The Skills Shortage Myth: A Public Relations Tool for Bad Corporate Citizens Economic Policy Institute ...the existence of skill shortages ... exists mostly in the minds of those wanting access to low-wage, indentured servants or public subsidy for the training that firms should be doing themselves...
NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress The Guardian ...The National Security Agency on Saturday released a statement in answer to questions from a senator about whether it “has spied, or is … currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials”, in which it did not deny collecting communications from legislators of the US Congress to whom it says it is accountable...
Bankruptcy Filings Fall 13% in 2013 Credit Slips ...The monthly decline continues a long-term trend of falling bankruptcy filing rates. Filings are currently running around 3.3 per 1,000 persons...
Manufacturing Growth to Help Propel U.S. Expansion: Economy Bloomberg ...Factory purchasing managers said orders were the strongest since April 2010, helping explain why companies such as General Motors Co. (GM) and Ford Motor Co. (F) are taking on more workers in response to rising sales...
Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network TechCrunch ...Corporations are arguably more powerful today than ever before. But the economy isn’t dominated by a handful of megalithic conglomerates. it consists of hundreds or thousands of smaller, more specialized firms...
The Secrets of White Collar Prisons DuJour ...Bernie Kerik, Jack Abramoff and Dennis Kozlowski—three of the most high-profile men to be on the inside—smash the perception that prison life is anything like "Club Fed"...
Brother, Can You Spare $91.44 Billion? Economic Populist ...Wall Street got $91.44 billion in bonuses for 2013. The 98% of us want those bonuses paid back to the victims of the financial crisis...
Outsourcing Pays Big to Private Companies While Americans Suffer Economic Populist ...These same contractors obtaining overpriced contracts through privatization pay their workers little. There are now two contract workers per federal employee and that ratio is getting worse. ... Privatization of government is creating a nation of wage slaves...
An Error Message for the Poor New York Times ...students of anti-poverty programs remember a litany of automation and contracting meltdowns — some of them prolonged, even epic. Florida, 1992-93. Michigan, 1998-99. Colorado, 1998-2002. Texas, 2006-7. Indiana, 2007-9. The Colorado Benefits Management System is particularly memorable: When first implemented, it reportedly refused food stamps to anyone who did not have a driver’s license from Guam...
OP-ED: NAFTA’s 20 Years of Unfulfilled Promises Inter Press Service ...Under NAFTA, cheap subsidised corn from the United States flooded Mexico, making it impossible for millions of Mexican farmers to compete. Government support previously given to small farmers was withdrawn and directed to big agricultural exporting corporations instead...
Boeing machinists approve contract securing 777X jet Reuters ...Boeing's machinists on Friday narrowly approved a crucial labor contract that secured thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity for Washington state but will cost workers their pensions...
Housing tear-downs on the rise as real estate rebounds Los Angeles Times ...The rebounding housing market has sparked the demolitions. In November, the median price for a home in Southern California was $385,000, up nearly 20% compared with the same month a year earlier, according to research firm DataQuick...
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Today's Teamster News 08.26.13
Congress, Public Waking Up to Trans-Pacific Partnership Nation of Change ...Members of Congress are starting to pay attention to the upcoming, secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement that isn’t really about trade. And the public is also becoming aware that this runaway job-loss express train is coming straight at us...
America's Outsourcers to be Reclassified as Manufacturers Economic Populist ...Don't like the trade deficit, low GDP and the public outrage over the offshore outsourcing? Change the accounting method to make it go away! Such is the agenda of government statisticians it appears...
Walmart's Latest 'Buy America' Sham Huffington Post ...Walmart's growing control of the grocery sector is pushing down wages throughout food production...
Governors applaud Made in the USA, but do their laws support American manufacturing? manufacture this ...Eight governors were quick to applaud Wal-Mart for their U.S. manufacturing efforts. But do their states' laws promote U.S. manufacturing through “buy America” provisions for state public works projects?...
Fast-Food Workers Will Strike On August 29 — Here's What You Need to Know PolicyMic ...Fast-food workers and labor groups are now calling for a $15/hour minimum wage and many are also asking for opportunities to unionize. Beginning with walk-outs in individual fast-food restaurants last year, the movement has progressed from the local to a national scale. A national strike by fast-food employees is set to take place on August 29...
Dr. King, The March on Washington, and Full Employment Jared Bernstein Blog ...[f]ifty years ago, the unemployment rate was 5 percent for whites and 10.9 percent for blacks, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Today, it is 6.6 percent for whites and 12.6 percent for blacks...
Elizabeth Warren May Control Larry Summers's Fate Bloomberg ...Warren indicated that Summers was too friendly to Wall Street, where he has made a lot of money as a consultant during his time away from government...
ObamaCare's architects reap windfall as Washington lobbyists The Hill ...ObamaCare has become big business for an elite network of Washington lobbyists and consultants who helped shape the law from the inside...
Cash Hoarders Devastate Economy The Real News ..The wealthiest Americans are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. They aren't reinvesting,...
Oregon Man Holds Up Bank For $1, Waits To Be Arrested To Get Health Care Liberaland ...Timothy Dean Alsip, 50, is homeless and needed health care, so he allegedly robbed a bank so he could medical attention...
REPORT: American Workers Have Seen A ‘Lost Decade’ In Wage Growth ThinkProgress ...Despite productivity gains of nearly 25 percent from 2000 to 2012, “wages were flat or declined for the entire bottom 60 percent” of the workforce, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)...
Colin Powell On Republican Voting Restrictions: ‘It’s Going To Backfire’ ThinkProgress ...These kinds of procedures that are being put in place to slow the process down, and make it likely that fewer Hispanics and African Americans might vote I think is going to backfire, because these people are going to come out and do what they have to do in order to vote and I encourage that...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman files Donald Trump 'University' $40 million fraud suit Daily News ...Schneiderman’s office accuses Trump of defrauding more than 5,000 people nationwide through his “Trump University” that offered free seminars to help them get rich by teaching real estate-investing techniques used by the billionaire developer-turned-reality TV star...
The AFL-CIO Is Exploring New Investments in Alt-Labor and Texas Organizing The Nation ...the past two decades have seen an explosion in the number of “alt-labor” groups organizing and mobilizing workers outside of traditional union representation or bargaining; such groups currently mostly rely on union or foundation funding...
Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states Associated Press ...hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states ... get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. Legislatures granted them access decades ago on the premise that they serve governments and the public. In many cases, such access also includes state health care benefits...
Child poverty in Britain is causing 'social apartheid' The Guardian ...Britain risks "sleepwalking into a world where inequality becomes so entrenched that our children grow up in a state of social apartheid", according to a leading charity...
America's Outsourcers to be Reclassified as Manufacturers Economic Populist ...Don't like the trade deficit, low GDP and the public outrage over the offshore outsourcing? Change the accounting method to make it go away! Such is the agenda of government statisticians it appears...
Walmart's Latest 'Buy America' Sham Huffington Post ...Walmart's growing control of the grocery sector is pushing down wages throughout food production...
Governors applaud Made in the USA, but do their laws support American manufacturing? manufacture this ...Eight governors were quick to applaud Wal-Mart for their U.S. manufacturing efforts. But do their states' laws promote U.S. manufacturing through “buy America” provisions for state public works projects?...
Fast-Food Workers Will Strike On August 29 — Here's What You Need to Know PolicyMic ...Fast-food workers and labor groups are now calling for a $15/hour minimum wage and many are also asking for opportunities to unionize. Beginning with walk-outs in individual fast-food restaurants last year, the movement has progressed from the local to a national scale. A national strike by fast-food employees is set to take place on August 29...
Dr. King, The March on Washington, and Full Employment Jared Bernstein Blog ...[f]ifty years ago, the unemployment rate was 5 percent for whites and 10.9 percent for blacks, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Today, it is 6.6 percent for whites and 12.6 percent for blacks...
Elizabeth Warren May Control Larry Summers's Fate Bloomberg ...Warren indicated that Summers was too friendly to Wall Street, where he has made a lot of money as a consultant during his time away from government...
ObamaCare's architects reap windfall as Washington lobbyists The Hill ...ObamaCare has become big business for an elite network of Washington lobbyists and consultants who helped shape the law from the inside...
Cash Hoarders Devastate Economy The Real News ..The wealthiest Americans are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. They aren't reinvesting,...
Oregon Man Holds Up Bank For $1, Waits To Be Arrested To Get Health Care Liberaland ...Timothy Dean Alsip, 50, is homeless and needed health care, so he allegedly robbed a bank so he could medical attention...
REPORT: American Workers Have Seen A ‘Lost Decade’ In Wage Growth ThinkProgress ...Despite productivity gains of nearly 25 percent from 2000 to 2012, “wages were flat or declined for the entire bottom 60 percent” of the workforce, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)...
Colin Powell On Republican Voting Restrictions: ‘It’s Going To Backfire’ ThinkProgress ...These kinds of procedures that are being put in place to slow the process down, and make it likely that fewer Hispanics and African Americans might vote I think is going to backfire, because these people are going to come out and do what they have to do in order to vote and I encourage that...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman files Donald Trump 'University' $40 million fraud suit Daily News ...Schneiderman’s office accuses Trump of defrauding more than 5,000 people nationwide through his “Trump University” that offered free seminars to help them get rich by teaching real estate-investing techniques used by the billionaire developer-turned-reality TV star...
The AFL-CIO Is Exploring New Investments in Alt-Labor and Texas Organizing The Nation ...the past two decades have seen an explosion in the number of “alt-labor” groups organizing and mobilizing workers outside of traditional union representation or bargaining; such groups currently mostly rely on union or foundation funding...
Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states Associated Press ...hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states ... get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. Legislatures granted them access decades ago on the premise that they serve governments and the public. In many cases, such access also includes state health care benefits...
Child poverty in Britain is causing 'social apartheid' The Guardian ...Britain risks "sleepwalking into a world where inequality becomes so entrenched that our children grow up in a state of social apartheid", according to a leading charity...
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