- Husband Sues Hospital, Saying It Worked His Wife to Death—"Jim Jasper says understaffing led to his wife being overworked, causing her to crash her car." (Turn off your speakers before clicking the link.)
- Caught in unemployment's revolving door—"Economists are concerned that joblessness lasting more than 6 months is a key factor preventing people from getting rehired, with grave consequences."
- Tennessee GOP trying to pressure Volkswagen to fight union it doesn't oppose
- The Robots Are Here—"Not only are they taking our jobs—they're harbingers of a new libertarian age."
- U.S. Retailers Decline to Aid Factory Victims in Bangladesh—"Walmart, Sears, Children's Place and other American companies that were selling goods produced at the site of two disasters are not joining in efforts to compensate victims' families." NYT
- Wages Stagnate as U.S. Manufacturers Reap Record Profits
- McDonald's Website Tells Underpaid Employees to Eat Smaller Meals and Sell Holiday Gifts on Ebay
- Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?—"Young farm workers are falling ill from 'green tobacco sickness' while the industry denies it and government lets it happen."
- How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens—"According to one study, American fast food workers receive more than $7 billion dollars in public assistance."
- From fast-food strikes to efforts to raise minimum wage, low wage workers' movement appears on the rise
- Houston crackdown: City defies Texas corporate crime wave—"'If you can win it in Houston, you can win it in Atlanta or Dallas,' advocate says of landmark new 'wage theft' law." Salon
- Flipside: 11 Reasons To Love Costco That Have Nothing To Do With Shopping
- That Time Stephen Colbert Created A Public Relations Nightmare for Walmart—"Earlier this week, a Walmart associate shared a photo from a Canton, Ohio store showing empty bins with a sign that read 'Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.'"
- Ashton Kutcher vs. Wal-Mart: Epic Twitter clash rages over poverty wages—"Kutcher slams retailer: 'You should be proud of your associates but I'm not sure if they should be proud of you.' Salon
- Wal-Mart Food Drive Unwittingly Fuels Talk Of Minimum Wage Hike
- Walmart Still Hasn't Paid Its $7,000 Fine For 2008 Black Friday Death
- Labor Board Sides With Workers: Walmart Can't Silence Employees Any Longer—"A landmark ruling by the National Labor Relations Board says Walmart unlawfully harassed and fired employees for protesting."
- WikiLeaks: Walmart bid Stratfor to investigate rival CEO's alleged affair
- Walmart: Plans to make Black Friday biggest worker mobilization ever—Including allegedly cutting down on holiday pay.
- Tim Cook vetoes Apple Retail plan to open additional stores on Thanksgiving, gives workers holiday off
- These stores won't be open on Thanksgiving
- This Is What It's Like to Be Poor
- The State With The Most Rich People Also Has The Highest Poverty Rate
- Fed Nominee Janet Yellen: Income Inequality Is 'A Very Serious Problem'
- Sen. Sherrod Brown: Strengthening Social Security for generations yet to come
- Elizabeth Warren Nails It On Social Security
- Platinum-Plated Pensions—"In the current budget debate, the loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from two lobby groups led by CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security."
- Right-wing pension-cutters get humiliated by their own survey data—"Conservative ploy to slash public employee benefits runs into trouble when its own poll shows an unexpected reality." Salon
- See How Food Stamp Cuts Are Hitting Across The U.S.
- Paul Ryan: Poor People Need Jesus, Not Food Stamps
- The GOP's Cruel Crusade Against Food Stamps—"Want to reduce the culture of entitlement? Fine. But blindly cutting essential aid without additional job training makes no sense."
- Food Stamp Cuts Leave Rural Areas, And Their Grocers, Reeling
- Food Stamp Costs Swelled by States Spending $1 for Heat
- Support Grows In House to Save Food Stamps by Killing Farm Bill
- Cut Corporate America's Free Lunch, Not Food Stamps—"Simply eliminating the business meals and entertainment tax deduction could raise nearly as much revenue as the Senate farm bill cuts from food stamps."
- With Ongoing Criminal Investigation, JPMorgan's $13B Deal Won't End Its Legal Troubles
- Tim Geithner and the Revolving Door
- The House GOP's Hypocrisy on "Too-Big-To-Fail"—"Republicans in the House worry Dodd-Frank financial reforms won't prevent future bank bailouts. Meanwhile, they're trying to make it easier for banks to get bailouts."
- They're Watching You at Work—"What happens when Big Data meets human resources? The emerging practice of 'people analytics' is already transforming how employers hire, fire, and promote."
- Offices For All! Why Open-Office Layouts Are Bad For Employees, Bosses, And Productivity
- Americans are leaving more than half a billion vacation days on the table
- HealthCare.gov contractor had high confidence but low success—"Contractor CGI displayed high confidence about HealthCare.gov features that proved not ready." WaPo
- Sen. Franken: We Should Consider Extending Individual Mandate Deadline If Website Isn't Fixed
- Bill Maher: Single-Payer Advocates: It Hurts To Say I Told You So
- No, Callous Americans, Private Giving Can't Replace Obamacare
- Nearly 80,000 Californians sign up for Obamacare plans
- If canceled, not even 1% will pay more for Obamacare: Study—"A 'tiny fraction' of people will lose their health plans and pay more for Obamacare coverage, a new study found."
- Here's Every Argument You'll Need To Win Your Obamacare Debate This Thanksgiving
- CNN obtains GOP playbook to target Obamacare
- Milbank: The GOP's scary-movie strategy—"The party is using fear against Obamacare." WaPo
- The Biggest Problem With Obamacare's Rollout Is Being Caused Intentionally by Republicans
- Republicans Refuse to Cover the Poor, Then Complain that Obamacare Isn't Covering the Poor
- Oops! John Boehner's Obamacare stunt backfires
