- They won't be lovin' it: McDonald's admits 90% of employees are on zero-hours contracts without guaranteed work or a stable income
- Zero-hours contracts: What is it like living on one?
- Zero-hours contracts remind me of the great depression – let's stop this—"Being 90, I've seen what poor working conditions do to people. What type of country do we want? It's our responsibility."
- Zero-hours contracts will not create a sustainable economy—"Zero-hours contracts may keep actual unemployment lower, but they also depress consumer confidence and activity – which are just as important for a healthy economy."
- Zero hours casual contracts are not the only option
- Low-wage America
- If Amazon is the future of work, then be afraid
- Sorry, It's Not A 'Law Of Capitalism' That You Pay Your Employees As Little As Possible
- US Companies Thrive as Workers Fall Behind NYT
- Debunking the Minimum Wage Myth: Higher Wages Will Not Reduce Jobs
- Bernie Sanders Exposes The Republican Goal of Abolishing The Minimum Wage
- Colbert: Hitler would have raised the minimum wage—"Stephen Colbert expressed his solidarity with Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto, who said striking fast food workers should be grateful for whatever jobs they can get."
- After I banned tipping at my restaurant, the service got better and we made more money
- Report: U.S. Only 'Rich' Country That Doesn't Require Employers To Provide Paid Vacation Time
- Americans Don't Take Vacation Even Though It's One Of The Best Benefits Around
- Vamos a la playa: The politics of Europe's summer holidays
- Walmart Gets Desperate—"The country's largest employer tried to compare the wages of their long-term employees to the stipends of Nation interns. The Daily Beast bought their spin."
- Walmart Agrees To Improve Safety Conditions At More Than 2,800 Stores
- 3 Signs Walmart’s Best Days Are Behind It
- Obama economy: Part-time jobs swamp full-time jobs—Like the one of the Arizona firefighters whose wife was deemed ineligible to receive death benefits since he wasn't a full-time employee.
- Obama Should Commit to a Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan
- Reich: Why Republicans Want Jobs to Stay Anemic
- The Charitable Industrial Complex—"We need to shatter current structures and systems to create a society that creates greater prosperity for all. But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts, we've got a perpetual poverty machine." NYT
- Congressman Scolds Catholic Nun For Asking Government To Help The Poor
- 'Crack baby' study finds poverty is worse for child development than exposure to drug in womb
- Time to take a bite out of food stamps?
- 4 in 5 in USA face near-poverty, no work
- US regulators 'find evidence' of banks fixing derivative rates—"US regulators have reportedly been handed evidence that traders at some of the world’s biggest banks manipulated a key rate for derivatives, pocketing millions at the expense of pension funds in the process."
- Not even death stops banks from deducting fees—"Bank of America has deducted $12 monthly fees from the account of a customer who died in March. And it can legally continue doing so for years."
- Michael Lewis on Goldman Sachs: The Company Would Flourish Under Totalitarian Rule
- $700k windfall: Russian man outwits bank with hand-written credit contract
- The bailout Wall Street is blocking from Main Street—"Banks representing the nation's largest bond investors are suing the city of Richmond, which last week took steps to take over underwater mortgages through eminent domain."
- Under Scrutiny, Goldman Offers to Speed Metal Delivery—"The bank said it would offer immediate access after regulators began to investigate how delays at commodities warehouses had influenced prices." Too little, too late? NYT
- Industry wrote provision that undercuts credit-rating overhaul
- Justice Department Sues Bank of America Over Mortgages
- JPMorgan: We're Being Investigated By DOJ Over Mortgages
- New Bank Investigations: Real Action, or More of the Same?
- London Whale 'won't face charges over $6.2bn loss at JPMorgan'—"Bruno Iksil, the 'London Whale' trader at the centre of JPMorgan's largest ever trading loss, will not face charges over the incident, according to reports."
- Bavaria top court orders Mollath released from mental institution—"Bavarian judges ordered the immediate release of Gustl Mollath from an institution for the criminally insane, pending a retrial of his case. His incarceration for seven years has been dubbed a legal scandal." Mollath was a whistleblower.
- A Whistle-Blower Who Can Name Names of Swiss Bank Account Holders NYT
- NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study—"Report by NYU and Fordham law schools found 'shocking level of impunity' and department that acted beyond its powers."
- Occupy Nashville wins ruling that TN violated their First Amendment rights
- Pepper-spray cop seeks workers' comp—"The former UC Davis police officer who pepper-sprayed a group of seated protesters at a campus Occupy demonstration in 2011 is appealing for workers' compensation for psychiatric damage stemming from the incident."
- 99% – The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film' Trailer
- Occupy Wall Street May Resume As 'End Wall Street'
- Edward Snowden, patriot
- There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along Salon
- Breaking Through Limits On Spying—"Apparently no espionage tool that Congress gives the National Security Agency is big enough or intrusive enough to satisfy the agency’s inexhaustible appetite for delving into the communications of Americans. Time and again, the N.S.A. has pushed past the limits that lawmakers thought they had imposed to prevent it from invading basic privacy, as guaranteed by the Constitution." NYT
- NSA cites case as success of phone data-collection program—"The importance of phone logs in disrupting plots has been less clear since the program was revealed."
- Is this $8,500 wire transfer really the NSA's best case for tracking Americans’ phone records? —"The Obama administration and the U.S. intelligence community, under growing public pressure to justify the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance capabilities, have finally offered up a piece of evidence for their case that the program to track Americans’ phone call metadata is necessary to protect national security: a series of wire transfers, worth $8,500 in all, from San Diego to Somalia. In 2008."
- Obama's deceptions on Snowden
- Barack Obama pledges greater surveillance transparency
- The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden
- Victim Of Obama's Crackdown On Whistleblowers Says Calling Leakers Spies Is Modern Day McCarthyism
- Press Corps Fails To Ask Any NSA Questions At Obama’s NSA Press Conference
- Lavabit's Ladar Levison: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'
- NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls—"Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications."
- The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership—"The primary business model of the Internet is built on mass surveillance, and our government’s intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data. Understanding how we got here is critical to understanding how we undo the damage."
- US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Mass Fake Accounts
- Apple patents tech to let cops switch off iPhone video, camera and wi-fi
