- 'Living Wage' Effort Eclipsed By Minimum-Pay Battles
- New York Raising Minimum Wage To $8 By End Of Year
- McDonald's on employee resources site: Not lovin' it
- The Life of a Fast-Food Striker—"When I met Shonda Roberts, she had been working in the fast-food industry for twenty years."
- From fast food strikes to Wal-Mart: 2013 and the year in labor—"2013 was a year of unexpected vulnerability and vitality — and the year fast food and Wal-Mart campaigns diverged." Salon
- The Quiet Death Of Long-Term Unemployment Insurance In 2013—Ends today
- Where the 1.3 million people losing unemployment aid this week live—Around 222,000 just in California. WaPo
- The GOP Decides to Play Scrooge as Millions Lose Benefits
- House Republicans Opposed To Extended Unemployment Benefits Could Pay The Price In 2014: Poll
- Obama calls senators to back extension on jobless benefits
- Sen. Sanders on extending unemployment insurance
- Democrats plan big push on jobless aid in new year
- The Corporate "Free Speech" Racket—"How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation."
- Krugman: Why Corporations Might Not Mind Moderate Depression NYT
- McDonald's Makes $1 Billion Profit, Costs Taxpayers $1 Billion
- We Are Two Nations: A Christmas Serial
- In No One We Trust—"Inequality is eroding our faith in institutions and our way of life." NYT
- Super rich benefit from 'status quo bias'
- Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever
- Noam Chomsky: We're no longer a functioning democracy, we're really a plutocracy
- The Real War on Christmas: The War on the Poor
- Why 2 Broke Girls is TV’s best, junkiest show about economic inequality.
- US judge defends scathing remarks on financial crisis
- Local courts reviving 'debtors' prison' for overdue fines, fees
- BofA's legal costs mount in Countrywide mortgage fiasco
- U.S. bank watchdogs to consider Volcker rule tweak—"U.S. bank regulators said on Friday they would consider allowing banks to hold on to certain complex securities despite a new rule limiting risky investments."
- DOJ declined to enforce Bernie Madoff-related subpoena of J.P. Morgan: document
- When It's People vs. Wall Street, Tea Party Votes 'Wall Street'
- An Open Letter to the Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself—"And then I unraveled the truth. The truth about my father and his behavior: that behind all of it was really just insidious soul-sucking shame masked by addiction, which we love to call ambition, which is really just greed."
- Australia: Door-to-door salesman charged for ignoring 'Do Not Knock' sign
- Documents show Carnival knew of fire danger before ill-fated cruise—"Carnival's court filing says the contract that passengers agree to when they buy a ticket 'makes absolutely no guarantee for safe passage, a seaworthy vessel, adequate and wholesome food, and sanitary and safe living conditions.'"
- Watch Al Franken Shred A Pro-Arbitration Professor For Trying To Gloss Over The Problem
- Proof That It Pays to Be America's Most-Hated Companies
- The Colbert Report: Rethinking Customer Satisfaction—"A study by Bloomberg Businessweek indicates that customer satisfaction might actually be bad for business."
- Coca-Cola 'YOU RETARD' Bottle Cap Forces Company To Apologize To Edmonton Family
- Flipside: Not Always Right
- Outrage expressed after WWII vet allegedly bumped from Honolulu-bound flight
- Delta bumps passengers for UF basketball team—A passenger missed a funeral.
- Ban on in-flight calling proposed because people talking is annoying—"While FCC moves toward allowing calls, another federal agency might ban them."
- Woman behind MSP 2-hour shutdown ID'd; no, a propane tank is not a carry-on
- Delta Airlines Is Very Sorry It Generated a Confirmation Code That Read "H8GAYS"
- NY district judge rules that NSA phone surveillance is legal
- US will make deal with Edward Snowden, claims former MI5 head Dame Eliza Manningham Buller
- Glenn Greenwald calls for Snowden asylum at Chaos Computer Club congress
- Greenwald: US, British media are servants of security apparatus
- 'Front-Page Rule' is unprecedented in U.S. intelligence community—"Presidential panel suggests covert activity shouldn't be undertaken if the public couldn't support it if exposed." WaPo
- How to defeat Big Brother—"In 2013, we learned the terrifying scope of modern surveillance. Now it's time to fight back." Salon
- Encrypted chat service Cryptocat for iPhone rejected by Apple
- Google Loses Bid for Wiretap Suit Appeals Court Rehearing
