- Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin GOP Senator, Fights For A Seven-Day Workweek
- How restaurant lobby blocks living wage for fast food workers
- The Fight for $15: Campaign for Living Wage Readies National Push—Seattle's looking into it.
- Democrats Turn to Minimum Wage as 2014 Strategy—"Democrats are hoping that a push to raise the federal minimum wage and a campaign to place state-level wage proposals on the ballot will help their chances in hotly contested congressional races." NYT
- Meet the Americans Who've Lost Their Unemployment Benefits: "I'm Thoroughly Petrified"
- Video: Targeting the GOP on unemployment insurance—The economic cost is adding up.
- Leading Republicans' states among worst hit by jobless benefits cuts
- "Vacations are for the weak"
- Krugman: Disinformation on Inequality—"In his piece Stephens trashes Obama, accusing him of making a factual error when he did no such thing; then proceeds to commit just about every statistical sin you can imagine in an attempt to minimize the rise in inequality." NYT
- The Widening Wealth Gap: Bringing Income Inequality Into Focus
- Social Darwinism and class essentialism: The rich think they are superior
- Florida Law on Drug Tests for Welfare Is Struck Down—"Judge Mary S. Scriven of the United States District Court in Orlando held that the testing requirement violated the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches." Not only was there a big conflict of interest that involved Fla. Gov. Scott's drug test company, the anti-poor program wasted more money for refunds on negative results. NYT
- Reducing income inequality not so easily dismissed
- The "middle class" myth: Here's why wages are really so low today—"Want to understand the failures of the 'free market' and the key to getting a decent wage? Here's the real story." Salon
- Why the American Middle Class Is Dying
- "The Biggest Redistribution Of Wealth From The Middle Class And Poor To The Rich Ever" Explained...
- Mayor Bill De Blasio challenges New York's millionaires with higher taxes
- Sen. Sendars: 2014: Seize the Moment—"As we survey our country at the end of 2013, I don't have to tell you about the crises we face. Many of you are experiencing them every day."
- On Christmas, Republicans Quietly Declare War on Themselves
- The 10 biggest GOP rebranding fails of 2013—"From cutting food stamps to 'calves the size of cantaloupes' -- the 10 worst moments of the GOP's 2013 rebranding." Salon
- Maine GOP Primary Challenger Cites Domestic Violence Conviction as a Reason to Trust Him
- Koch Brothers Launch $2.5 Million Ad Blitz Against Democrats, Obamacare
- GOP's 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans' misfortune, drum up fake outrage Salon
- Skepticism of evolution grows among Republicans, according to new poll
- Republican Reformers Stop Being Polite to Tea Party, Start Getting Real
Politics
- Chief Justice Warns Sequestration Cuts Already Threatening Public Safety—"Sequestration cuts have affected court operations across the spectrum."
- Cruz Still Blames Shutdown On Democrats
- Kris Kobach Continues To Make Up Voting Rules As He Goes Along—Going two-tier wasn't suppressive enough it seems.
- Republican Activist Won't Be Charged In 'Voter Fraud' Stunt
- Independent gubernatorial candidate Evan Falchuk says if elected, campaign finance laws benefiting status quo among top priorities
- AP Factcheck: Many pay more under new North Carolina tax laws
- Art Laffer: I Was Wrong About Inflation And The Fed—"His 'Laffer Curve,' which argued that there are diminishing returns after a certain point of taxation, was taken as gospel."
- Ben Bernanke Admits To One Huge Mistake—"[H]e didn't think a house price crash would be such a big deal...."
- Why Aren't Big Bankers in Jail?—"Why ask why, say their enablers in financial press."
- The New Main Street Consensus
- Federal Reserve Asks Financial Industry Lobbyists For Personnel Recommendations
- U.S. waived laws to keep F-35 on track with China-made parts—Gotta keep that military industrial complex going and making China richer in the process.
- Most Wasteful Government IT Projects Of 2013—"Federal agencies continue to pour millions into overlapping IT projects. Check out the worst offenders."
- Video shows businesses lobbying Rebecca Kleefisch for more tax breaks in closed-door meeting
- Video: A Year of Corporate Fines—"Despite having to paying millions or even billions of dollars in fines, many companies look at the payments as just the cost of doing business." NYT
- Teacher suspended for alleged comment: "We do not need another black president"
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio racial profiling costs taxpayers $21M
- Racial profling at University of Souther California
- Drugs at Home and Abroad
- Colorado: Pot sales exceed $1 million on first day
- Did 37 people die of marijuana overdoses on the first day of legalized use in Colorado?
- The Great Marijuana Experiment: A Tale of Two Drug Wars—"As Washington and Colorado create rules and regulations for selling legal marijuana, in many other cities across the country pot arrests are near record highs."
- Why Legalizing Marijuana Is a Smart Fiscal Move
- David Brooks smoked pot - but you shouldn't—Add Joe Scarborough and Tina Brown to the concern trolls list.
- Video: "I was nearly arrested for weed"—"[MSNBC's] Chris Hayes explains how he escaped arrest at the Republican National Convention in 2000, and how this ties in to the War on Drugs."
- Maine DHHS denies bid to make marijuana legal for Tourette's—"Advocates say they will keep trying for approval after an Ellsworth man's request to make the syndrome a qualifying condition is rejected with no explanation."
- A Vet Finds PTSD Relief With Pot, Though The Law Creates Hurdles
- Bill Bratton, Stop-And-Frisk Architect, Takes Over Nation's Biggest Police Force
- Cost of an inmate phone call from Bay County Jail is $4.24 for connection plus 0.69 cents per minute
- It's Time to Close New York's School-to-Prison Pipeline—"How Bill de Blasio can help solve the twin problems of over-policing and under-educating in one swoop."
- Idaho to take back control of privately run state prison
- Pa. Police: Cop Pepper-Sprayed Girlfriend's Son
- Police break 13 year old's nose for refusing to confess to something he didn't do
- Kansas Cops Continue to Harass Kid With Camera
