- I work 4 jobs and I'm still struggling
- More Than 1 In 10 Americans Who Work Full Time Are Still Poor
- It's Not OK That Your Employees Can't Afford to Eat
- Pay better wages, minister tells Domino's Pizza boss—"He said the law would not change 'just so he can keep his wages low.'"
- Poverty nation: How America created a low-wage work swamp—"For decades, both parties supplanted a push for higher wages with well-intended public aid. The result: calamity." Salon
- GM doesn't owe $450 million in retiree benefits: U.S. judge
- Supreme Court Dismisses Mulhall v. Unite Here, Giving Labor a Lucky Escape
- Gillibrand introduces bill to provide paid family and medical leave to workers
- Elizabeth Warren measure would forbid employers from looking at job applicant's credit history
- Indonesia: Young Woman Dies After Tweeting That She Worked 30 Hours Straight
- Sen. Rand Paul: Extending Unemployment Benefits Would Be Disservice to Jobless
- Jon Huntsman hits Rand Paul on welfare
- The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed
- North Carolina Has Demonstrated What Happens When We End Extended Unemployment Benefits
- Unemployment benefits for 1.3 million expire next week. Here’s what you should know. WaPo
- GOP Rep. Joe Barton Calls For Minimum Wage Repeal
- Mayor Bloomberg Sues To Kill New York's Living Wage Law Before He Leaves Office
- Sanders: GOP 'Just Factually Wrong' About Minimum Wage Hike
- S.F. mayor backs big boost in SF minimum wage
- $10.10 Minimum Wage Would Actually Create New Jobs: Study
- Majority of Americans want minimum wage to be increased, poll finds WaPo
- The Minimum Wage and McDonald's Welfare
- Just how wealthy is the Wal-Mart Walton family?—As of 2010, they have a "a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."
- CEO Pulls Bogus Stunt In Attempt To Discredit Walmart Workers
- Wal-Mart Monetizes the Occupy Movement
- Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch—See how Wal-Mart has used public money in your state.
- Walmart, Waltons epitomize America's class war
- Bill Moyers, Covering Class War
- Reich: The Meaning of a Decent Society
- Krugman: Why Inequality Matters—"[R]ising inequality becomes by far the most important single factor behind lagging middle-class incomes." NYT
- The economics of inequality: Why the wealth gap is bad for everyone—"Protecting the rich at the expense of the poor isn't just immoral, says this economist—it is a recipe for economic disaster."
- Democrats should prioritize combatting inequality. It's popular. WaPo
- American inequality is on the rise. But global inequality is falling.
- Yes, Making the Rich Poorer Would Make Everyone Else Richer
- Public Transit Is Underfunded Because the Wealthy Don't Rely on It
- UK: Take from the poor, but not the rich: Tax authorities accused of 'siding' with big business over small firms and individuals
- The Budget Deal Is a Big Win for the Pentagon—"The wars are winding down. It's the age of austerity. But nobody messes with the Pentagon budget."
- And the budget winner is ... the defense sector.—"The so-called bipartisan agreement brings the defense sector out ahead at the expense of veterans, the poor, the unemployed, children and the aged."
- Paul Ryan & the GOP Must Own the Cuts to Veterans Benefits
- Obamacare Enrollments Are Starting to Surge—Obama cops screwing up the intial rollout.
- Despite O'care rollout, Americans want to expand safety net—"A new poll finds that majorities still say the federal government should act to expand health coverage to all Americans." WaPo
- 93 percent of hospital executives think Obamacare will make health care better WaPo
- Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study
- Conservatives freak out over 'pajama boy'
- Industry Groups Give Up On Medicaid Expansion In Big Blow To Obamacare
- Does New Obamacare Mandate Exemption Open A Pandora's Box?
- US ban on high-risk bank trades approved—"U.S. banks will be barred in most cases from trading for their own profit under a federal rule approved Tuesday." The Volker Rule won't kick in until July 2015 for the biggest banks. WaPo
- What the Volcker Rule Really Does—"New regulations won't do much to prevent financial crisis, but they're a step toward shrinking America's megabanks."
- Volcker Rule Made Meaningless by Abundant Exemptions
- JP Morgan facing $2bn fine for involvement in Madoff ponzi scheme—"Bank tentatively agreed to pay $2bn to settle allegations it failed to inform US authorities of the jailed fraudsters suspicious activity."
- U.S. preparing civil charges against Citigroup, Merrill Lynch: sources—" The Justice Department is preparing to file civil fraud charges against Citigroup Inc and Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit over their sale of flawed mortgage securities ahead of the financial crisis, according to people familiar with the probes."
- Financial offenders must be named if bank reforms are going to work—"The shocking tale of Lloyds' mis-selling culture ended with a deserved £28m fine. But not one person was singled out for blame. As Iceland shows, that's got to change."
- Visa, MasterCard $5.7 Billion Swipe Fee Accord Approved—"For the first time, merchants will be empowered to expose hidden bank fees to their customers, educate them about those fees and use that information to influence their customers' choices of payment methods."
- Court: Occupy Columbia can sue Haley over arrests—For suppressing free speech.
- Reich: JP Morgan Chase, the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, and the Corruption of America
- Secret Inside BofA Office of CEO Stymied Needy Homeowners—"Instead of helping homeowners as promised under agreements with the U.S. Treasury Department, Bank of America stalled them with repeated requests for paperwork and incorrect income calculations, according to nine former Urban Lending employees." Their remedy for customer frustration: gift cards.
- UBS ruled not liable to U.S. shareholders for rogue trader—"U.S. securities laws have their limits and do not justify making UBS AG liable to shareholders for touting its ability to control risk even as it harbored a rogue trader who caused $2.3 billion of losses, a federal judge ruled...."
- Bank Lobbyists Dispute $83 Billion Subsidy. They're Wrong
- Oregon politician gets six years for Facebook IPO fraud—"A former candidate for governor of Oregon was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday for fraudulently convincing investors he had access to shares of Facebook Inc before its highly anticipated initial public offering in 2012."
- How Citibank Charged TPM for Executive Substance Abuse Counseling—Human error, or something deeper?
- Swiss banks urge U.S. tax dodgers to come clean to beat deadline Politico
- Debt-collecting machine—"Aeon, which uses mail drops and lists no owners, has threatened families from D.C. to Ohio with foreclosure." WaPo
- Three lawyers face disciplinary hearing in Maine over 'robo-signing' scandal—"The lawyers from the Portland firm Drummond and Drummond were involved in the foreclosure case that brought attention to the national mortgage industry crisis."
- The Government Is Quietly Giving Way More Housing Aid To Rich People Than Poor People
- Woman Who Lives "Off the Grid" Threatened With Eviction – From Her Paid-For Home
- Dana Rohrabacher Is Dirty—"[Moxley Confidential] Congressman turned $1 million Costa Mesa home rental into pigsty." And now he's suing the landlord for the clean-up bill.
- Libyan told he cannot pursue rendition claim in case it harms UK interests—"High court judge says Abdel Hakim Belhaj has well-founded claim, but case would damage British-US relations."
- HSBC Gets Small Fine For Terrorist Transactions—"A major U.S. bank has agreed to a settlement for transferring funds on the behalf of financiers for the militant group Hezbollah, the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday."
- Majority of Americans say Afghan war has not been worth fighting, Post-ABC News poll finds WaPo
- NSA program stopped no terror attacks, says White House panel member
- FBI Successfully Foils Another FBI Plot
- NSA surveillance programme: 'It's going to get worse'—"The NSA's surveillance programme is prompting many US writers to abandon topics that could be deemed too sensitive – yet that programme looks set to grow."
- Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer—"Undisclosed until now was that RSA received $10 million in a deal that set the NSA formula as the preferred, or default, method for number generation in the BSafe software, according to two sources familiar with the contract."
- GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief—"Unicef, Médecins du Monde and African heads of state were on list of surveillance targets, documents show."
- Responding to reports it spied on Israel, White House says 'all countries collect intelligence'
- Obama concedes NSA bulk collection of phone data may be unnecessary—But he also says Snowden's leaks have "done unnecessary damage."
- Officials' defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling WaPo
- U.N. votes to protect online privacy; Edward Snowden leaks credited
- UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over Prism leaks
- NZ Customs Refuses To Answer Questions After Revelations Of Illegal Orders To Give FBI Info On Kim Dotcom For 'Brownie Points'—Extradition case gets further delayed.
