- The Republican War on Workers' Rights—"State legislatures have favored employers over their employees." NYT
- Here's The Painful Truth About What It Means To Be 'Working Poor' In America
- Walmart Warehouse Contractor To Pay $21 Million To Settle Wage Theft Allegations
- Medical residents' pay: Doctors in training are organizing for collective bargaining
- McDonald's vacates headquarters due to worker protests —Over 100 arrested.
- For Chevron, $6 a day is apparently too much pay for Cambodian workers
- Poll: 47% of Unemployed Have 'Completely Given Up' Looking for a Job
- Cutting Off Emergency Unemployment Benefits Hasn't Pushed People Back to Work
- Unemployment: It's Not Personal NYT
- More Gloom for the Long-Term Unemployed, from Alan Krueger WSJ
- The fight for a global minimum wage
- Show This To The Next Person Who Says High Minimum Wages Kill Jobs
- Michigan: Bill boosting minimum wage to $9.20 an hour to get hearing in state House
- Swiss voters reject $25 minimum wage
- No matter what the boss says about flextime, get to work early
- Why Are We So Busy?—"Since the 1930s, U.S. G.D.P. has grown, in real terms, by a factor of sixteen. Why hasn’t that wealth translated into more leisure time?"
- Man Asks Mike Rowe for "Life Advice"
- "It's total moral surrender": Matt Taibbi unloads on Wall Street, inequality and our broken justice system—"Matt Taibbi, author of 'The Divide,' tells Salon about Geithner's excuses, Piketty's success and Nixon's cronies." Salon
- Krugman: Springtime for Bankers—"The government saved Wall Street but left the real economy behind." NYT
- Occupy activist Cecily McMillan sentenced to three months in jail—"McMillan to also serve five years' probation for deliberately elbowing a New York police officer at a protest in 2012.
- Convicted of Felonies, Banks Are Allowed to Stay in Business NYT
- Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab Accounts Linked To Mexican Drug Cartels: SEC
- Barclays Bank fined £26m for gold price failings
- JPMorgan, HSBC and Credit Agricole accused of euro rate-fixes
- JPMorgan Ex-CEO for China Investment Bank Arrested, Caixin Says
- Credit Suisse pleads guilty to U.S. criminal charge in tax probe—"Swiss bank Credit Suisse on Monday pleaded guilty to a criminal charge for its role in helping Americans dodge taxes, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said, and will pay more than $2.5 billion as part of an agreement with U.S. authorities."
- Credit Suisse still too big to jail despite guilty plea
- Big fine 'won't do much damage': Credit Suisse CEO
- Why Is Credit Suisse Still Allowed to Do Business in the United States?—"The conventional wisdom is that revoking a large bank's license can trigger potential systemic consequences. But that's not the case here."
- Federal Judges Are Cutting Rich Tax Cheats Big Sentencing Breaks
- IRS: 318,000 fed workers owe $3.3B in back taxes
- Why Republicans Love Taxing the Poor
- To Lift the Poor, You Can't Avoid Taxing the Rich—"It would be nice if we could tackle inequality with a growth approach and without some sacrifices from the wealthy, but that path simply doesn't exist." NYT
- Billionaire Home Depot Founder Is Not Really Sorry For Nazi Comparison
- Protesters angry drunken Ferrari driver got work release sentence—More affluenza at work.
- Martins Beach billionaire evades questions on stand
- As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price
- Pope Demands 'Legitimate Redistribution' Of Wealth—Also: The Piketty pontiff: How Pope Francis is bringing Catholicism back to its anti-inequality roots Salon
- 'Stunning' Data Proves, Yet Again, Housing The Homeless Would Actually Save Taxpayers Big Time
- Tony Abbott's daughter was given scholarship for $60,000 design degree—"Frances Abbott was awarded a chairman's scholarship for bachelors degree at prestigious Sydney institute where a donor to her father sits as chair of board of governors."
- One dollar, one vote—"When it comes to setting policy, the views of businesses and the rich seem to count for more."
- Thanks to the Roberts Court, Corporations Have More Constitutional Rights Than Actual People
- Public Justice's Paul Bland Explains What Media Should Know About Class Actions And The Pro-Business Roberts Court
- Looks Like Patent Trolls Have Won This Round As Even Weakened Patent Reform Likely To Die—US Senate wusses out.
- GM to pay $35 million over delayed recall—No arrests?
- Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books—"Amazon, which controls more than a third of the book trade in the United States, is marking many books published by Hachette Book Group as not available for at least two or three weeks." NYT
- Goodbye, Amazon: We're through!—"I quit Amazon because of its monopolistic tactics. Is it impossible for book publishers to do the same?" Salon
- Amazon Loses Bid for ".Amazon" Domain Name—In the tradition of WWF forcing WWE to submit.
- Lawyers threaten redditor over negative router review on Amazon—Streisand Effect leads to Amazon rescinding Mediabridge's selling priveleges.
- Utah couple win against company that charged for bad online review—Kleargear responds and gripes.
- California: Bill would create new protection for shoppers who write online reviews
- When Rave Reviews Become Risky Re: Internet Reviews
- Docs get Yelped! 1 in 4 patients now read online physician reviews
- Lincoln City hotel sues for defamation after anonymous person posts scathing TripAdvisor review
- Italian antitrust watchdog investigates TripAdvisor reviews, Expedia pricing deals
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