- "I Don't Want to Create a Paper Trail": Inside the Secret Apple-Google Pact—"Tech workers say Silicon Valley giants conspired to keep the lid on pay."
- Steve Jobs threatened Palm's CEO, plainly and directly, court documents reveal—"Another lesson from the Silicon Valley wage theft suit, which I first reported here, is what can happen to even powerful tech CEOs who make the fatal mistake of standing up to monopoly power."
- Redfin accused of misclassifying employees as independent contractors—"Company offers its agents salaries, benefits and bonuses based on customer satisfaction."
- Living on $2.13 an Hour Plus Tips—"Philadelphia sports bar will pay over $8 million in back wages for skimming 'tip pool.'"
- Turns Out Anti-Union Volkswagen Workers May Have Screwed Themselves And The South
- CBO: Obama's minimum wage plan would cost jobs but help millions—More than 20 milllion families. WaPo
- Boehner: Suicide over minimum wage hike
- Gap Ditches the Minimum Wage, Gives Raises to 65,000 Workers
- Millennials Feel Trapped in a Cycle of Internships With Little Pay and No Job Offers NYT
- Generation Y: why young job seekers want more than money—"New research shows Millennials are less interested in financial security and more concerned with job fulfilment."
- 29 Percent Of All U.S. Adults Under The Age Of 35 Are Living With Their Parents
- Early Amazon.com investor says online retailer 'probably destroyed a million jobs
- Bill would make Maryland second state in the nation to require paid sick leave
- McDonald's employee fired after she paid to feed first responders
- Spain, Land of 10 P.M. Dinners, Asks if It's Time to Reset Clock—"A pro-efficiency movement is pushing the country be more productive by aligning with Europe's 9-to-5 schedule." NYT
- Your 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour
- How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps—Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done?"
- US soldiers used $100 million in food stamps in 2013
- Without food stamps, there might be no WhatsApp—"Today, Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp and its biggest shareholder, is rumored to be worth more than $6 billion. But as a teenager, he was on food stamps, a recent immigrant from the Ukraine, starting over with his mother in the US."
- Why Taxpayers Will Bail Out the Rich When the Next Storm Hits—"As homeowners around the nation protest skyrocketing premiums for federal flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has quietly moved the lines on its flood maps to benefit hundreds of oceanfront condo buildings and million-dollar homes...."
- Why the multimillion dollar retirement is not for the middle class—"A new study advocates a pension plan that's impossible for most families, unless they have a huge income and decades to spare."
- If the 1% wants class warfare, maybe it's time to start fighting back—"What Tom Perkins and Co don't know can only make the rest of us stronger."
- B.C. property market hazy after 'millionaire visa' scrapped—"Tens of thousands of applications from wealthy investors scrapped after two years on hold."
- Little B.C. fishing club takes on U.S. billionaire
- The Creeping Expansion of Corporate Civil Rights
- Congress Is About to Shower More Tax Breaks on Corporations After Telling the Unemployed to Drop Dead
- Boeing, Second Largest Federal Contractor, Pays No Federal Income Tax in 2013
- White House: New Limits to Be Proposed on Corporate Tax Avoidance
- Samsung allegedly pressures Korean newspaper to kill coverage of anti-Samsung film
- Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail—"How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it."
- Don't cry for Wall Street—"Wall Street is really, really unhappy with the president it helped give us — but there's absolutely no sign these guys have learned their lesson."
- Madoff Said JPMorgan Executives Knew Of His Ponzi Scheme For Years
- One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
- Capital One says it can show up at cardholders' homes, workplaces—"The credit card company's recent contract update includes terms that sound menacing and creepy."
- Small-firm lawyer takes on Wall Street and wins, twice
- R.B.S. Said to Place Trader on Leave Amid Currency Investigation—"A senior currency trader in London is the third to be placed on leave by the Royal Bank of Scotland." NYT
- Mortgage bailout now profitable for taxpayers—"U.S. taxpayers have recouped all of the $187 billion they gave mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in one of the most expensive bailouts of the financial crisis."
- UK fraud agency charges 3 ex-Barclays bankers over Libor
- Investment banker jumps to death from JP Morgan’s headquarters in Central—Another one. SCMP
- No, 71 percent of Obama voters don’t regret voting for him WaPo
- Obama drops Social Security cut
- The best case that the war on poverty has failed—"Fifty years after the launch of the war on poverty, many conservatives say we've failed the war. Maybe we have failed -- but for different reasons." WaPo
- How Tea Party Absolutism Cost The GOP A Huge Win On Entitlements
- 'The Daily Show' Proves Democrats Are Just as Corrupt as Republicans
- Where Have All the Lobbyists Gone?—"On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying money is flooding Washington, DC like never before. What’s going on?"
- Petition to Split California Into Six States Gets Green Light
- Conservative group pushes to topple GOP leaders in Congress
- How the GOP Sabotaged Marco Rubio, the Man Who Was Once Its Savior
- GOP Official Doubles Down On Practically Every Offensive Comment He's Made
- State Senator misattributed quotes because they "sounded like something he (Lincoln) would say."
- DeLay: Americans Have Forgotten That God Wrote The Constitution
- 70-Year-Old GOP Candidate In Texas Arrested For Assaulting Man With 'RINO' Signs
- Four Reasons The GOP Has A Huge Advantage In The 2014 Elections
- Michele Bachmann: Obama Won Because He's Black and America Felt Guilty
- CNN Gets Into Greg Abbott's Face After Tx. GOPer Palled Around With Ted Nugent—"Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) was happy to campaign with conservative troll Ted Nugent this week, despite the fact the rocker once called President Obama a "chimpanzee" and a 'subhuman mongrel.'"
- Tenn. official 'threatened' blacks with skin 'trophy' he saved from 1896 lynching—That's a firing.
- Scott Walker's Former Chief-of-Staff Sent This Insanely Racist Email
- Confederate flag to appear on new Ga. car plates
- Christie's former aide refuses to comply with subpoena
- Another Christie childhood friend witnessed traffic surge—"A Port Authority executive issued an investigation into new report that a Port Authority police officer -- and Christie pal -- was on the GWB when lanes closed
- 911 Calls Describe 'Total Gridlock,' 'Nightmare' During Fort Lee Traffic Jam
- Maddow Defends Bridge Coverage Following 'Morning Joe' Criticism
- Police Union Implicated in Bridgegate Owed Hundreds of Jobs to Christie
- Investigation Surrounding Scott Walker Even Bigger Than We Thought
- This Could Be the Start of Scott Walker's Bridgegate
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker under fire in campaign finance probe
- Email: Doctor ditched over thong past—"Emails released Wednesday reveal that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker might have been behind the firing of a woman because she was a former thong model." Politico
- Major missteps cost the state jobs
- Voter ID cases could let John Roberts destroy Voting Rights Act
- Chief Justice Roberts Was Right: How To Fix The Voting Rights Act
- Voters' Bill of Rights blocked in Ohio
- GOP Group Fixes Fake Websites For Democrats After Press Reports
- GOP operative asks judge to delay trial until after elections—"Claiming key GOP campaign strategies could be 'exposed' before this year's gubernatorial and legislative races, a Queens Republican operative wants his federal corruption trial delayed until after November's elections."
