- Fast-food workers call for nationwide walkout Aug. 29
- Elderly More Likely to Be Employed Than Teens WSJ
- Abracadabra, You're a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
- BofA intern dies after reportedly working 3 straight days—"A 21-year-old intern who worked grueling hours at Bank of America's London office died just a week before his internship was to conclude."
- Plutocrats' New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty—"Pete Peterson & Co. kindly want to take your Social Security away to prevent you from imagining a dignified future."
- How Much You Should Save for Retirement, Based on 139 Years of Data
- Flipside: Ad agency gives workers 500 paid hours to pursue passions
- Study: Welfare pays more than minimum wage in most states
- How low can you get: the minimum wage scam—"Wonder why benefit spending is rising? Simple: corporations get away with crappy wages, so government has to make up the rest."
- Campaign seeks to push Seattle minimum wage to $15
- Ex-McDonald's CEO: Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Would 'Absolutely' Kill Jobs
- Cyprus: President pledges a 'Guaranteed Minimum Income—Phasing out welfare.
- Why I'm standing up to Wal-Mart—"For six years, I worked for the company. But when I decided to strike, they fired me. Now I'm firing back." Salon
- No, Walmart doesn't create jobs
- Walmart 'Suspends' 10 Workers For Taking 5 Minute Break In 90+ Degree Weather
- Walmart's Latest 'Buy America' Sham—"In a way, Walmart's Buy America program represents the home stretch of the economic transformation the company set in motion decades ago."
- Flipside: Meet the Low-Key, Low-Cost Grocery Chain Being Called 'Walmart's Worst Nightmare'
- Dems have an ace in the hole in coming battle—""Republicans will face a fundamental question. Do they care more about preventing deep cuts to defense, or protecting special interest tax breaks for big oil companies and hedge fund managers?"
- Reich: Here's Why America Stopped Caring About The Public Good
- Prisons, Post Offices and Public Schools: Some Things Should Not Be For Profit
- The CIA Is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents—Another victim of sequestration.
- Texas Converts 80 Miles Of Paved Road To Gravel Thanks To Lack Of Funds
- Lobbyist Secretly Wrote House Dems' Letter Urging Weaker Investor Protections—"Thirty-two liberal Democrats signed onto a letter drafted by a financial-industry lobbyist that aims to block protections for millions of Americans' retirement accounts."
- Congressman Doesn’t Believe White Collar Crime On Wall Street Exists—"Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple."
- Obama Presses Regulators to Finish Financial Rules—"Meeting at the White House Comes as Many Dodd-Frank Measures Still Not in Place." WSJ
- A mayor who puts Wall Street first—Bloomberg the billionaire. NYT
- Why Wall Street & Co. Will Do Anything to Stop Eliot Spitzer from Championing the Public Interest
- Secrets of a former high speed trader—"High speed trader turned whistleblower David Lauer explains why he left the industry and how certain practices at computerized trading firms negatively affect the markets."
- Goldman Sachs banker charged with rape in New York state
- Greg Palast: The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
- The Great Bubble Era Was Caused by Financial Deregulation, Not Easy Money
- The SEC is now demanding that companies admit wrongdoing. That's a big deal.—"For certain violations, the agency would no longer allow financial institutions to simply pay a fine without admitting wrongdoing (also known as a 'nolo contendere' plea)."
- Ex-JPMorgan Traders First Charged in $6.2 Billion Loss—"Two former JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) employees were charged by federal prosecutors with attempting to conceal trading losses at the largest U.S. bank last year as part of a probe of its $6.2 billion loss on derivatives bets."
- JP Morgan in US probe over links to influential Chinese—"US authorities are investigating investment bank JP Morgan over claims it hired children of influential Chinese officials [NYT] to gain business."
- Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology—"The Justice Department made a long-overdue disclosure late Friday: Last year when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder boasted about the successes that a high-profile task force racked up pursuing mortgage fraud, the numbers he trumpeted were grossly overstated."
- Elizabeth Warren says mortgage settlement too lax on banks
- Unsealed court-settlement documents reveal banks stole $trillions' worth of houses
- New Fraud Evidence Shows Trillions of Dollars in Mortgages have No Owner
- Bank of America Employees We Were Told To LIE To Struggling Home Owners
- Denver family evicted after mom murdered—"Federal housing officials are condemning a decision by the Denver Housing Authority to evict the relatives of a mother killed by a rampaging gunman three days after her slaying, saying there is room for compassion in federal law."
- Why the 30-Year Mortgage Could Be Coming to an End
- Does Wealth Breed Narcissism: The New 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall' Study
- Girl parks Maserati in middle of the road, says those who complain are just jealous
- Upper West Side condo has separate entrances for rich and poor
- The NSA is losing the benefit of the doubt
- New York Times Partnering With Guardian On Snowden Reporting
- Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs—Making it very difficult for the NSA to determine what and how much he has taken.
- NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests—"The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT." And a movie!
- Lawmakers Probe Willful Abuses of Power by NSA Analysts—And are any of these lawbreakers going to jail?
- Why Nobody Cares About the Surveillance State—"When you've been groped by the TSA, what's a little NSA spying?" All part of the program to stamp out dissent.
- Three Illusory "Investigations" of the NSA Spying Are Unable to Succeed
- The More Likely Reason for Spying: It's For Protecting the Profits of the Oligarchs—And the Corporatocracy.
- Schneier: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google—"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."
- Julian Assange: Google and the NSA—"Google is not only getting paid by the U.S. Government to provide them with surveillance information, it is more or less an arm of the U.S. State Department. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange explains."
- Why NSA Snooping Is Bigger Deal in Germany
- New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom—"'Everything goes into the US-based spy cloud,' Kim Dotcom tells Ars."
- NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies
- Obama pick for NSA review panel wanted paid, pro-government shills in chat rooms—There's definitely for astroturfing activity going on in forums and comment sections.
- justdelete.me—"A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services."
