- Why we need to raise the minimum wage—"A higher wage will lift hardworking Americans out of poverty and break their link with government assistance."
- Costco back in the forefront of minimum wage debate—"Costco Wholesale Corp. President and CEO Craig Jelinek is putting his name and company in the forefront of the latest drive to increase the federal minimum wage."
- Starbucks CEO Comes Out In Favor Of A Minimum Wage Increase
- Conservative lobby group behind push to lower minimum wage, report says—"Politicians backed by conservative group Alec have introduced 67 laws in 25 states aimed at reducing minimum wage levels."
- House Republicans Unanimously Vote Down Minimum Wage Hike—"Six Democrats joined...."
- Walmart Fighting Bill That Would Grant Living Wage to Employees in D.C.
- Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green—"A police survey says panhandlers outside Wal-Mart in Coos Bay can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much."
- Discredited: How Employment Credit Checks Keep Qualified Workers Out Of A Job
- With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection NYT
- 6 Ways Companies Are Secretly Screwing Job Applicants
- Lies Your Employer Tells You
- Meet the Heartless Jerk Leading a Project to Eliminate Sick Leave
- Sick leave shark wrestler Paul Marshallsea sacked—"If I hadn't gone in to save the kids on that beach that day my wife and I would still have a job."
- On the Flip Side: Volkswagen shares NZ$1.1b in profits with workers
- Is There Life After Work?—"Reflections on balancing (or failing to balance) a job with the rest of life." NYT
- Relax! You'll Be More Productive—"To be at your peak, don't work so much." NYT
- Don't slog away at the end of the day
- Key to Happiness: Keeping Busy Without Feeling Rushed
- De-stress your life, says HuffPost founder
- US trails most of world in providing paid family leave NYT
- Portland, Oregon Becomes Fourth American City To Adopt Paid Sick Day Law
- Jobs confidential: 15 people reveal the truth about their work—"Ever wondered what it's really like to be a vicar or a dominatrix? Or what a brain surgeon or a bikini waxer think about their job? Here, 15 people with very different careers reveal – anonymously – the trade secrets of their working day."
- The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Mediocre People
- If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
- Robert Reich explains why you won't get rich Salon
- Why Social Mobility In The United States Is A Total Myth
- Major corporations are pocketing your taxes—"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston explains how the economy is rigged to benefit the one percent." Salon
- Incomes of bottom 90 percent grew $59 in 40 years—"During the same period, average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071." Salon
- Why the precariat requires a basic income
- The unaffordable baby boomer dream—"Race and gender barriers might have eased, but economic strictures have tightened, denying the dreams of new generation."
- Workers over 50 are the new 'unemployables'
- Are baby boomers stealing the country's future?—"Legendary investor Stan Druckenmiller says the US is heading for a 'storm' as millions of boomers threaten to suck the system dry."
- 'Monsanto Protection Act' slips silently through US Congress—Doing the bidding of their corporate masters.
- How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
- Is JPMorgan a farmer?—"How the nation's biggest banks use the little-covered House Agriculture Committee to gut regulations." Salon
- JPMorgan: Poster Child for the Most Dangerous Financial System Since 1929
- JPMorgan’s Follies, for All to See—"The nation supposedly has new safeguards against another financial crisis. But a Senate report on JPMorgan Chase's $6.2 billion trading loss offers cause for worry." NYT
- "I Can't Keep This Going": How JPMorgan Chase Changed Its Own Risk Rules and Lost $6 Billion
- Goldman mortgage appeal rejected by Supreme Court—"The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce supported Goldman, saying they feared 'vexatious, abusive litigation and coercive multimillion or billion dollar settlements to the detriment of the nation's economy.'"
- After Watering Down Financial Reform, Ex-Senator Scott Brown Joins Goldman Sachs' Lobbying Firm
- Goldman Rejects Proposal That Firm Run for Elected Office—"...using a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that corporations have similar political rights to individuals."
- Eric Holder Makes it Official: Crime Is The Economic Model
- It's time to tax financial transactions
- Senate votes to end advantages for 'Too Big To Fail' banks
- Bill Moyers: Are the Monster Banks on the Verge of Unleashing Fresh Economic Disaster?
- As Profit Slips, Credit Suisse Increases C.E.O. Pay by 34%
- Freddie Mac Drags 15 Banks To Court Over Losses From LIBOR Manipulation
- Wall Street Bankers Dispense Advice for Living Like the Normals
