- Enjoy Your Weekend? You Won't If Republicans Get Their Way
- An ugly experiment in North Carolina
- Jobless benefits don't cause unemployment
- San Francisco's Higher Minimum Wage Hasn't Hurt the Economy
- Portland mayor: Raise city's minimum wage
- 11 jobs where an honest day’s work will leave you in poverty Salon
- CNN Global Wage Calculator
- The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley's most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers' wages
- US tech firms make eleventh-hour attempt to halt tax avoidance reforms—"Lobbyists representing leading US technology companies urge thinktank advising G20 not to close international tax loopholes."
- Technology and jobs: Coming to an office near you—"The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow's jobs will be immense—and no country is ready for it."
- The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World's Jobs Disappear
- US Army Studying Replacing Thousands of Grunts with Robots
- A Congress Of the Wealthy, By the Wealthy, and For the Wealthy—"Lawmakers’ favorite investments are 'too big to fail institutions' like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase. Is it any wonder that these institutions haven’t been broken up?"
- JP Morgan's Frauds are Epic,Unprecedented in World History – William Black—He's the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry.
- Fined Billions, JPMorgan Chase Will Give Dimon a Raise—"In a series of contentious meetings, JPMorgan Chase’s board voted to give Jamie Dimon a new pay package after his pay was cut in half last year, to $11.5 million."
- HSBC imposes restrictions on large cash withdrawals—"Some HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because they could not provide evidence of why they wanted it, the BBC has learnt." Update: HSBC backtracks.
- Vatican cleric Scarano charged with money-laundering
- Banker Says Letting Banks Fail Is Essential to Rebuilding Public Trust NYT
- T-Mobile's 'Mobile Money' blends prepaid Visa cards and no-fee checking features
- I Stopped Using Regular Banks for Two Weeks, and I'm Never Going Back
- Why the Rich Don't Think They're Rich. And Why It Matters
- Krugman: The Undeserving Rich—"Why you can't lump the plutocrats in with the upper middle class." NYT
- Republican Party to vote for repeal of U.S. anti-tax dodging law
- For the Love of Money—"We are letting money addiction drive too much of our society." NYT
- Eric Schmidt Just Revealed A Key Truth About The Economy That Very Few Rich Investors And Executives Want To Admit ...
- Meet the Man Who Got His Dead Mom's Social Security Benefits for 23 Years
- Pope to global elite: Do more for poor
- Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world—Money ain't trickling down.
- Robert Reich: David Brooks is full of it—"The former secretary of labor dismantles the Times columnist's ideas about the 'social problems of the poor.'" Salon
- Kevin O'Leary says 3.5 billion people living in poverty is 'fantastic news'—Hard to say if he's trolling.
- New poll: 2 in 3 Americans affirm that rich-poor gap is wider—"Most Democrats say government should do more to close the income gap between rich and poor, while nearly half of Republicans say it should do very little. But most Americans say government should ease poverty."
- A surprising map of where it's hardest to escape poverty in America WaPo
- Inequality: Why aren’t the poor storming the barricades?
- Income inequality is not a concern of Wall Street's money addicts
- What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?—"A study of what happened with a Native American tribe shows a big effect on children." NYT
- Brazil's poor are protesting income inequality in an awesome way
- Koch World 2014
- We May Finally Find Out Who Is Funding One Of The Nation’s Shadiest Dark Money Groups
- Conservative Author Dinesh D'Souza Charged With Campaign Finance Fraud
- Fake Obama photo meant to "smear" a rival envelops Houston congressman in cloud of controversy
- Is Obama Running Away From a Voter Registration Fight With the GOP?—"Obamacare should lead to millions of new registered voters, but the administration may be selling that effort short."
- Repairing the Voting Rights Act—"A creative new bill in Congress could overcome objections raised by the Supreme Court last year."
- 2014 Could Be A Bad Year For Tea Party Senate Candidates
- House Republicans Kick Off 2014 By Ignoring Everything the American People Want
- Democrats should exploit fissure in Tea Party: senator
- Gohmert: Gov't Tries To 'Lure' Single Moms Into 'Servitude' With Welfare
- On average, 20 to 25 cents of every $1 spent on four government assistance programs is lost to fraud, Sen. Ron Johnson says—Make that fabricates, as Politifact points out.
- Huckabee: Gov't Shouldn't Help Women Who Can't Control Libidos—He's opted to double down on his misogynist message. Just how much sex is too much sex?
- Supreme Court Halts Birth Control Rule For 'Little Sisters' Group
- Judge orders Texas hospital to remove life support from pregnant, brain-dead woman
- High court rejects review of Arizona's 20-week abortion
- Judge Declares NC Abortion Ultrasound Law Illegal
- Judge Throws Out Oklahoma Morning-After Pill Bill
- Abortion clinic buffer zones go before the Supreme Court
- When It Comes To Abortion, Forcing Women To View Ultrasounds Is Just Unnecessarily Cruel, And It Doesn't Change Their Minds
- Antiabortion movement faces a cold reality WaPo
- Scott Lively: Right to choose robs men of their "Biblical authority"
- Anti-Abortion Republicans Are Largely Quiet As Israel Adopts Liberal Abortion Law
- Pope Says Abortion Evidence of 'Throwaway Culture'
- Pennsylvania Man Confronts His Governor For Refusing To Expand Medicaid: 'How Many People Have To Die?'
- 60% Of KY GOPers Buck McConnell, Support Medicaid Expansion
- Medicaid Expansion May Be a Sleeper Issue for Democrats This Year
- NSA leaker Edward Snowden says U.S. return 'not possible' given current laws
- Snowden: 'Not all spying bad' but NSA program 'divorced from reason'
- Some of the biggest names in cryptography condemn NSA spying in open letter WaPo
- RNC condemns NSA spying in huge turnaround—And how about the Dems?
- White House refuses to accept that NSA phone dragnet is illegal
- Democratic rights and the defense of Edward Snowden—" Those who are guilty of treason against the US Constitution are screaming 'treason' against the man who has exposed their crimes."
- Security Check Firm Said to Have Defrauded U.S.—"The company that conducted a background investigation of Edward J. Snowden fraudulently signed off on hundreds of thousands of incomplete security checks in recent years, the Justice Department said." NYT
