Serious Blow Dealt To US Unions In The South
FILE – In this July 31, 2012 file photo, an employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., works on a Passat sedan. A three-day election on whether workers will be represented by the United...
View ArticleMayor Duggan: ‘The Change In Detroit Is Real’
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan delivers his first State of the City address, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) DETROIT (AP) — In the nearly two months that Mike Duggan has been...
View Article‘Unbalanced Recovery’: Wages Falling, Low-Paid Jobs Rising Across US
People line up at the food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) While wages have declined across all sectors in the...
View ArticleWalmart Has $76 Billion Stashed In “Magical” Tax Havens
(ANTIMEDIA) Walmart’s profit-at-any-cost philosophy—including a virtual assault on the rights of its hourly workers and its continuing reliance overseas suppliers with a collective penchant for human...
View ArticleMapping The Cost Of “Sin” Across America
As spring heads into summer across the United States, many Americans may be enjoying a frosty adult beverage. And associated with the purchase of that alcohol, Americans will pay a hefty tax. The...
View ArticleEnd of the (Petro)Dollar: What the Federal Reserve Doesn’t Want You to Know
Saudi King Salman, second right, walks with US President Donald Trump to attend the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
View Article“Sellouts in the Room:” Éric Toussaint on the Greek Debt Crisis and SYRIZA...
ATHENS, GREECE – For years, throughout the severe economic crisis that has plagued Greece over much of the past decade, the international media and financial press have held Greece up as a striking...
View ArticleWall Street Admits Curing Diseases is Bad for Business
Goldman Sachs has outdone itself this time. That’s saying a lot for an investment firm that both helped cause and then exploited a global economic meltdown, increasing its own wealth and power while...
View ArticleDems Hope To Force House Vote On Minimum Wage Hike
Assemblyman Carl Heastie, D-Bronx, a sponsor to raise the state’s minimum wage, works in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Minimum wage proposals...
View ArticleShould Middle Class Americans Really Be So Down?
Houses in Jarikborg, a town in Sweden. Despite the country’s high social spending, data suggests that its average citizen lags behind members of the U.S. Middle Class. (Photo/Ulf Liljankoski via...
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