- Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound—"A lower unemployment rate for older workers masks troubling trends of reduced pay and longer job searches." NYT
- The 5% recovery: Why most are still in recession
- Welfare fraud: 'Damned if you do, doomed if you don't'—"When it comes to violating welfare rules, recipients sometimes do so after suggestions from caseworkers."
- Low-wage Workers Are Older Than You Think—"88 Percent of Workers Who Would Benefit From a Higher Minimum Wage Are Older Than 20, One Third Are Over 40."
- Supreme Court sides with bar staff forced to pay cash shortages with tips—"[Uptown] Drink countered that employees voluntarily paid the shortages rather than be written up for failing to properly handle cash."
- Wall Street's Rental Bet Brings Quandary Housing Poor—"Private-equity firms, hedge funds and real estate investment trusts have bought more than 100,000 U.S. homes, becoming dominant single-family landlords in markets hardest-hit by the housing crash such as Atlanta. As the companies seek thousands of tenants to fill newly renovated properties, their decision whether to lease to low-income Americans with Section 8 vouchers stands to affect both their profitability and poor residents who have been longtime renters."
- Bank Executive Admits to Using Bailout Money to Buy Condo
- Wall Street's greatest enemy: The man who knows too much—"What Michael Winston knows about corporate crimes will horrify you. That's why financial giants want to destroy him." Salon
- Five years since Lehman's collapse the unthinkable has become reality—"Our systems of governance have yet to properly address these previously unthinkable outcomes and their profound implications for current and future generations."
- The DOJ Has Corrupted the Rule of Law by Not Prosecuting Wall Street Financial Looters
- Federal Reserve Employees Afraid To Speak Put Financial System At Risk
- Government mortgage fraud lawsuit against BofA headed to trial
- US demands more than $6 billion from JPMorgan to settle claim
- Spanish police arrest ex-JPMorgan trader wanted in US on fraud charges
- Currency Spikes at 4 P.M. in London Provide Rigging Clues
- Swiss banks to divulge names of wealthy US tax avoiders, pay billions in fines
- Some Filthy Facts about the Rich—"Republicans in Congress want to cut the $4.35 a day food benefit to hungry Americans while two-thirds of tax subsidies and loopholes continue go to the top quintile of taxpayers."
- Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states
- 50% Of 'Retiring' Senators Now Become Lobbyists, Up From 3% A Few Decades Ago
- Taxpayer Dollars Paid A Third Of Richest Corporate CEOs
- Jindal Poll pipeline, is Louisiana Governor at 50 or 35 percent?—"According to Greg Hilburn of the Monroe News Star, that [50%] poll was conducted by Jindal’s best- buddy and top campaign consultant (Timmy Teepell’s) employer OnMessage."
- Do cities gain from subsidizing sports teams?—"Funding is often cut for parks and libraries to help teams pay their bills."
- Clarke seeks slice of soccer team for Orange taxpayers—"If Orange County taxpayers chip in $20 million for a new downtown stadium to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Orlando, then taxpayers should become part owners of any new team, Commissioner Pete Clarke says."
- Spending taxpayer dollars on sports stadiums will not help Detroit
- Syria chemical weapons attack killed 1,429, says John Kerry
- Putin says US should present Syria chemical weapons evidence to UN Security Council
- 'War-weary' Obama says Syria chemical attack requires response
- Some Context for Our Upcoming Bombing Campaign—"Nearly every American president eventually lets the bombs fall."
- France's Hollande backs US on Syria action
- Syria: Napalm-Like Burns After School Attack
- CNN Caught Staging News Segments on Syria With Actors
- US won't let Microsoft, Google reveal more data on FISA orders—"They now suing the government to get trust back from their users.
- EFF Amicus Asks Supreme Court to Review Warrantless Smartphone Searches
- Sec. of State John Kerry Bashes the Internet, Says it's Harder to Govern People with Internet
- Feds Back Away From Forced Decryption … For Now
- Cyberspying: Indian Government may ban Gmail for official communication
- It's 2013. We're all being spied on. Why do security software websites not use HTTPS?—"People say that using HTTPS is a performance hit. Locking your car door is also a performance hit, and so is putting on clothes in the morning. Security and privacy is worth a performance hit."
- "thereisnofatebutwhatwemake" – Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords—"Cracking really long passwords just got a whole lot faster and easier."
- True story behind Joburg's online security problems—"The City of Joburg said that a 'malicious hacking' was behind its security woes, and a police investigations is underway, but what is the true story?"
- Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw used in $5,700 Bitcoin heist—"Java Crypto weakness could affect security in hundreds of thousands of apps."
