- Sorry, Folks, Rich People Actually Don't 'Create The Jobs'
- IRS To Count Automatic Gratuities As Wages, Not Tips
- Interns who sued now can't find jobs
- I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me
- The Workers Who Bring You Black Friday—"My life as a temp in California's Inland Empire, the belly of the online shopping beast."
- Several injured as retailers open doors earlier than ever on Thanksgiving, sparking brawls between bargain hunters nationwide
- NBPD confirm woman trampled at Wal-Mart
- Infant left in car at Waterford Lakes while parents shopped
- Black Friday 2013 Kohl's shooting charges filed
- #WalmartFights is the Surefire Way to Destroy Your Faith in Humanity
- Black Friday Turns Dark as Twitter, Websites Track Injuries, Fights, Deaths
- Black Friday 'Doorbusters' Don't Always Hold Up—"Many Black Friday bargains were available at lower prices at other times of the year, an analysis of this year's deals found." WSJ
- Activists Are Arrested Protesting Walmart's Low Wages
- Senators blast Wal-Mart "trampling" workers' rights as dozens of activists are arrested on Black Friday Salon
- Sen. Grayson: Wal-Mart arrests could fuel "a new political movement of the disenfranchised" Salon
- Wal-Mart's bizarre self-defense: Retailer defends activists' firings to Salon—"What's the difference between punishment for striking, and punishment for 'attendance'? Corporate semantics." Salon
- Debunking Wal-Mart's latest lie: "Unions paid $50 to anyone who protested" Salon
- A Conservative Millionaire's Quest to Raise California's Minimum Wage to $12 an Hour
- Push for minimum wage hike led by localities, Democrats WaPo
- Secretary Of Labor Says Raising Minimum Wage Will Grow Economy
- This Is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense
- Why Do Poor People 'Waste' Money On Luxury Goods?
- Democratic Hawaii lawmaker pounded for taking sledgehammer to homelessness
- Offers of support flood in for N.J. man who lost his benefits after good deed
- Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash Are Surprisingly Effective Form of Aid to the Poor
- Under cover of Thanksgiving, SEC postpones "final" lobbying ethics rule
- How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme—Again—"Hedge funds and private equity firms have quietly bought 200,000 cheap, mostly foreclosed houses in cities hardest hit by the economic meltdown."
- Mortgages Without Risk, at Least for the Banks—"A part of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law is being challenged by a coalition that wants to drop risk retention for mortgage loans." NYT
- RBS accused of pushing small businesses to the edge to boost profits—"Dossier claims business assets were seized cheaply amid call to end turnaround arm's 'conflict of interests.'"
- Cayman Islands agrees to report US citizens' offshore assets under controversial law
- Do-Nothing Congress Dithers on Budget as Deadline Nears
- We're Not Broke — We've Been Robbed—"Slashing government spending now is just going to make our nation poorer."
- Is Capitalism in Trouble?—"CEOs are growing nervous. Can they help save our system from its worst excesses?"
- Crisis in America: a crumbling infrastructure—"America gets a D+ for its crumbling roads, bridges, other infrastructure. The Transport Secretary is calling for a gas tax to help pick up the tab."
- New tax law driving expats to renounce U.S. citizenship—What is FATCA?
- BBC HARDtalk interview with Glenn Greenwald
- Could Your Embarrassing Porn Habits Be Used Against You by the NSA?
- Wall Street Journal Columnist Repeatedly Gets His Facts Wrong About NSA Surveillance
- Microsoft, Yahoo Upgrades Shows Snowden Won, Obama Failed
- Techies Vs. NSA: Encryption Arms Race Escalates
- Judge Suspends Sentencing Of Would-Be Bomber After NSA Revelations
- NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales
- New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto
- Obama's overhaul of spy programs cloaked in more secrecy
- The FBI's Digital Surveillance Might Be More Wide-Ranging Than the NSA's (Or, Delegating the Spying)
- Obama's Justice Department asks court to keep key spy opinion secret—"The Obama administration should be permitted to keep a legal opinion secret that allows the FBI to obtain certain telephone records without any formal legal process, a Justice Department lawyer told a U.S. appeals court Tuesday."
- Disabled woman denied entry to U.S. after agent cites supposedly private medical details—"A Toronto woman is shocked after she was denied entry into the U.S. because she had been hospitalized for clinical depression."
