- Rise of the low-wage breadwinner
- 40% of Americans Consider Themselves in the Lower Classes—"The economic recovery is nearly five years old, but many Americans are feeling financially worse off than they were in 2008 according to study released Monday by the PEW Research Center in partnership with USA Today."
- Reich: Why The Three Biggest Economic Lessons Were Forgotten
- Krugman: Inequality, Dignity and Freedom—"Who really honors work and liberty? Probably not the 1 percent or the Republican Party." NYT
- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown lobbies for his bill that would expand Earned Income Tax Credits for the working poor
- AOL chief reverses changes to 401(k) policy after a week of bad publicity—One of the 'distressed baby' mothers speak out. WaPo
- Congress votes to repeal military pension cuts—Guess who was responsible for these cuts happening in the first place.
- Tennessee legislators threaten to withhold incentives if VW workers choose UAW—"Not only are Republican legislators accusing Volkswagen of backing the UAW, some of their leaders on Monday threatened to withhold tax incentives for future expansion of the three-year-old assembly plant in Chattanooga if workers vote later this week to join the UAW."
- Union Drive Doesn’t Bother Management, but G.O.P. Fumes NYT
- U.S. senator drops bombshell during VW plant union vote—"[H]e has been 'assured' that if workers at the Volkswagen AG plant in his hometown of Chattanooga reject United Auto Worker representation, the company will reward the plant with a new product to build."
- VW counters U.S. senator, says new product not linked to union vote
- UAW and VW Seek Economic High Road, Anti-Union Pols Seek to Block It
- Obama lashes out at Republicans on Volkswagen-union organizing fight
- Loss at Volkswagen plant upends union's plan for U.S. South
- The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage—"An increase would help 27.8 million people. It would also help balance power in the workplace." NYT
- After 23 Years, Your Waiter Is Ready For A Raise
- NFL Cheerleaders File Suit Saying They Make As Little As $2.85 Per Hour
- Obama to include disabled workers in federal minimum-wage hike—"Nobody who works full-time should have to live in poverty."
- Wisconsin Republicans Want To Prohibit Local Minimum Wage Laws
- Unemployed Americans Increasingly Frustrated With Congressional Inaction
- What do the jobless do when the benefits end? WaPo
- Republicans Decide A Bad Idea To Help The Unemployed Is Suddenly A Good Idea To Help Others
- Emails show Florida officials celebrated launch of unemployment website as it failed for claimants
- Closing the gap—"America's labour market has suffered permanent harm."
- In the Name of Love—"Elites embrace the 'do what you love' mantra. But it devalues work and hurts workers."
- Why I Just Quit My Job at Apple
- How Innovation Could Leave The Typical Worker Behind
- Woman Files Suit Against Employer Who Fired Her Hours After Cancer Diagnosis
- Postal service 'spied on worker with cancer'—"A German postwoman, who was sacked for missing work due to chemotherapy, is entitled to get her job back...."
- Sitting At Work For Hours Can Be As Unhealthy As Smoking
- Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes—"But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How's that?"
- The poor should stop whining, says luxury CEO
- Wealthy more worried about being seen as wealthy
- CEO to employee pay continues to widen: study
- The Rise (and Rise and Rise) of the 0.01 Percent in America—"The average 1 percenter is quite rich. But she lives in a state of relative poverty compared to the astronomical wealth of 'the 1 percent of the 1 percent.'"
- Reich: America’s "We" Problem
- Krugman: Vox Anti-Populi NYT
- The U.S. Is Locking People Up For Being Poor
- Chris Christie Mocks Income Inequality, Praises George W. Bush
- Banker couple waged war on neighbour over 12 inches of land in Kent village
- Florida Ordinance Makes it Illegal for Homeless to Use Blankets to Protect Themselves from Weather
- A Florida County Spent Over $5 Million Jailing Homeless People. It Could've Spent Less On Shelter
- Looking for the cheats? Don't look at the poor
- The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet—"Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever."
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions government's Wall Street enforcement strategy following JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's $8.5 million pay raise
- Barclays Bonuses Up 10% As 7,000 Jobs Are Cut—"The bank's investment arm staff get bonuses more than twice the average UK worker's income, as 7,000 job cuts are announced."
- High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating—"When hedge funds use bots to buy and sell stocks within milliseconds, they're not improving the market. They're rigging the market."
- Big Brother HSBC bank wanted to know what I'd spend my money on—"When I tried to withdraw £7,000 I had to provide an invoice to prove how I planned to use it."
- Feminist Writer Receives Letter From Bank of America Addressed to 'Lisa Is a Slut McIntire'
- Now FIFTH Bankers In Two Weeks Found Dead, Ruled 'Suicide' by Nail Gun
- Bank of England Staff Said to Condone FX Traders' Conduct
- Ex-Morgan Stanley Chief Jams Foot in Mouth, Complains of CEO Abuse—"John Mack actually thinks the government is being too hard on his banker buddies."
- Chinese official made job plea to JPMorgan Chase chief—"Federal authorities are now investigating whether the hiring at JPMorgan — and at least six other big banks — was done explicitly to win business from Chinese companies."
- Regulator plans purge of Wall Street arbitrators
- Florida Rep Helped Fugitive Embezzlers
- JP Morgan: Bitcoin is "vastly inferior" to traditional, fiat currency—"It would be onerous for any economy operating with it as legal tender."
- California Bill Would Make Bitcoin 'Lawful Money'
- New Silk Road hit with $2.6 million heist due to known Bitcoin flaw
- Sophisticated Spy Tool 'The Mask' Rages Undetected for 7 Years
- Change your passwords: Comcast hushes, minimizes serious hack
- CloudFlare Warns Cyber-Criminals Already Experimenting With Much Bigger DDoS Attacks
- Bizarre attack infects Linksys routers with self-replicating malware
- Google will block local extensions in Chrome 33 for Windows, disable existing ones not in the Chrome Web Store
