- Apple, Google will pay 64,000 engineers to avoid trial on "no-poach" deal—"Agreement to not 'cold call' drove down wages; settlement said to be $324M."
- Opinion: Treat wage theft as a criminal offense WaPo
- Times are so tough in Italy that Mafiosi are considering getting jobs
- Canadian waitresses lose jobs to foreign workers
- McDonald's Canada CEO calls foreign worker controversy 'bullshit'
- For Many Americans, 'Temp' Work Becomes Permanent Way of Life
- Gov. Mary Fallin signs minimum wage hike ban in Oklahoma
- Congressman Tells Low-Income Worker: Higher Minimum Wage Is 'Not Right'
- Alaska GOP pulling a fast one on minimum wage
- Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Campaign Losing Ground
- Bolivia raises minimum wage by 20%
- US Workers Were Once Massacred Fighting for the Protections Being Rolled Back Today
- Lawsuit: Forced on maternity leave, forced to return before baby is due—&st;San Jose woman claims in a lawsuit that Pier 1 forced her onto unpaid pregnancy leave, even though her doctors said she could work." LATimes
- Thousands of Chinese spent their "best years" making Nike shoes and now have no pensions
- Samsung's War at Home—"A grass-roots effort to make Samsung pay for deaths at a chipmaking plant is changing South Korea's corporate-is-king mentality."
- Judge: Talking dirty not reason enough to lose job
- Social Security stops trying to collect on old debts by seizing tax refunds—"The agency's move comes after The Post reports on the seizure of tax refunds issued to debtors' relatives." WaPo
- Lax Oversight Cited as Factor in Deadly Blast at Texas Plant—"Federal investigators have determined that a lack of oversight and regulations at the local, state and federal levels contributed to the deadly fertilizer plant explosion that devastated a rural Texas town last year." NYT
- VA: Man will get warning instead of $525 citation for $.89 drink refill
- Beer prices could go up under FDA rule that angers farmers, brewers
- The SEC's just been caught colluding with the banks it's supposed to regulate—"The Securities and Exchange Commission let Goldman Sachs and other banks off the hook for illegal marketing of complicated debt products. But the real scandal is a secret deal to pretend the fines were much tougher than they really were."
- SEC Blocking Update to Electronic Privacy Laws—"[T]he SEC—the agency charged with regulating the securities industry—has brought the ECPA update to a screeching halt."
- SEC Insider Indicts Agency as Soft on Wall Street: Four Blunt Points
- Wall Street deregulation pushed by Clinton advisers, documents reveal—"Previously restricted papers reveal attempts to rush president to support act, later blamed for deepening banking crisis."
- Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street
- Op-Ed: Will SWAT teams arrest bankers who owe $3 trillion for bailouts?
- Sallie Mae Cheated Soldiers On Federal Student Loans, Government Investigators Find
- U.S. Said to Ask BofA for More Than $13 Billion Over RMBS
- SAC Capital $1.8 billion penalty approved—"A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.8 billion settlement resulting from the guilty plea of hedge fund operator SAC Capital on charges related to insider trading by its employees."
- Stop moaning about our bonuses: Barclays boss slaps down investors angry at bank's pay practices
- Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world—"One of the slogans of the 2011 Occupy protests was 'capitalism isn't working'. Now, in an epic, groundbreaking new book, French economist Thomas Piketty explains why they're right."
- Elizabeth Warren Simplifies Thomas Piketty: 'Trickle Down Doesn't Work. Never Did'
- Al Gore Is Not Giving Up Politico
- Eight Headlines the Mainstream Media Doesn't Have the Courage to Print
- US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study
- Scholar Behind Viral 'Oligarchy' Study Tells You What It Means
- Tax Havens Leave U.S. Filers $1,259 Tab Each, Report Says
- Raising Taxes on Corporations that Pay Their CEOs Royally and Treat Their Workers Like Serfs
- The Super Rich Are Richer Than We Thought, Hiding Huge Sums, New Reports Find
- Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
- Matt Taibbi: America Has A 'Profound Hatred Of The Weak And The Poor'
- From the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor
- The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest NYT
- Florida City About To Make It Illegal For Homeless People To Have Possessions In Public
- Conservative Tribalism—"Mass transit. Common Core. Light bulbs. Conservatives hate these things for no better reason than that liberals like them."
- Six Studies That Show Everything Republicans Believe is Wrong—"It's time for the right wing to stop lying about the minimum wage, taxes, global warming and more."
- John Boehner admits Republicans are the problem WaPo
- Republicans Are Racists? No, It's Just All a Big Coincidence—"The revolting comments. The emails. The jokes. The posters. The T-shirts. The ghostwriters. It's not like it's a pattern or something."
- Sometimes Only the Onion Will Do
- Rasmussen: 59% of GOP Voters Say Republicans in Congress Out of Touch with Party's Base
- Nevada GOP drops platforms against abortions, gay marriage, endorses Sandoval
- Rupert Murdoch: Fox News Has 'Saved' The GOP And American Politics
- Texas grand jury being seated in Perry ethics case—"... an investigation into whether Gov. Rick Perry abused his power by vetoing funding for public corruption prosecutors...."
- Chris Christie's $300m pension proposal broke state anti-corruption laws (And now the intended recipient threatens to sue Pando)
- SEC probing New Jersey Governor Christie's transport funding—"Federal securities regulators are probing whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administration improperly diverted funds from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for use on transport projects in New Jersey...."
- Feds Preparing To Bring Criminal Charges Against Rep. Grimm
- U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Florida Gov. Rick Scott on drug testing
- TurboTax Maker Linked to 'Grassroots' Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing—"Intuit and its allies are continuing to work against proposals for what's known as return-free filing."
- Legalizing Internet gambling: Sheldon Adelson, casinos, offshore companies, lobbyists, and state governments fight it out
- Bill could slow Florida craft beer industry growth—"The fight between craft brewers and the distributors of Budweiser over the legalization of half-gallon beer containers has gotten so bitter that it is even being likened to extortion." Budweiser lobbyists' attack on craft brewers.
- Tennessee Passes Mind-Boggling Ban on Bus Rapid Transit
- Obama: Republicans want to keep people from voting—"If your strategy depends on having fewer people showing up to vote, that's not a sign of strength. That's a sign of weakness. And not only it is ultimately bad politics, ultimately it is bad for the country." WaPo
- After initial hysteria, back-pedaling over NC voter fraud claims
- Arkansas Judge Strikes Down State's Voter ID Law
- 4 Alabama counties have more active, registered voters than adult population
- New York joins campaign to end Electoral College role in presidential elections—"Gov. Cuomo signed off on the National Popular Vote Compact, agreeing to award the state's electoral college votes to the presidential candidate that wins the national popular vote."
- 'Segway Ryan' Hopes To Confuse Voters In Paul Ryan Primary
- Bar Association Angered By Haley Attack Ad: Legal Defense Is 'Constitutional Right'
- Democrats, You Better Get Angry or You'll Lose Congress
- Justice Stevens Rips Into John Roberts' Campaign Finance Ruling
- Campaign finance after McCutcheon: If the public doesn't care, the "appearance of corruption" doesn't matter.
- Can't We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt?
- Weeks After SCOTUS Campaign Finance Blow, Federal Judge Strikes Down NY Spending Limit
- The coming GOP campaign for donor secrecy—"Get ready for a big campaign in favor of eliminating disclosure of contributions." WaPo
- GOP's Mike Ellis caught on recording talking of illegal fundraising
- How do you start a super PAC? Ask these Tennessee teens. WaPo
- Money in Politics Is Taxation Without Representation
- U.S. seizes cattle in rare fight over federal land use in Nevada—blah blah blah
- U.S. agency ends Nevada cattle roundup after stand-off
- Conservatives begin backing away after Cliven Bundy's remarks disparaging 'the Negro'—How sincere was his apology?
- Jon Stewart Escalates Feud With Hannity: 'This Sh*t Is Out There'
- Stephen Colbert sings "The Ballad of Cliven Bundy": "His land belongs to you and me, that's what he told Sean Hannity" Salon
- Kansas Jewish Center Shooting Suspect Identified as Former KKK Leader
- Home-grown right-wing terror bares its fangs in Kansas killings
- U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists
- Far-Right Texas Terrorist Planned Murder And Robbery Spree in the Name of 'Liberty'
- More than 100 hate-crime murders linked to single website, report finds
