- In the Age of Amazon, Where Have All the Workers Gone?—"The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line."
- Reich: Inequality, Productivity, and WhatsApp—"In the emerging economy, there's no longer any correlation between the size of a customer base and the number of employees necessary to serve them."
- Business and the Minimum Wage—"Paying workers more can help companies lower turnover and improve productivity." NYT
- That Wasn’t So Hard: NYC Expands Paid Sick Leave to 500,000 More People
- Debt collection horror stories—"There are threats to dig up the dead relatives of those who couldn't pay their funeral bills, promises to imprison debtors or take their children into custody -- even warnings that pets will be killed."
- GOP blocks veterans bill—Why are troops still supporting those bozos? Bipartisanship sinks.
- Injured Combat Veterans Are Being Stripped of Their Medical Benefits—"How the U.S. Army is failing some of its wounded warriors."
- HOA Requests Military Welcome Banner Taken Down--"[T]he sign can be up two weeks before he gets home and two weeks after," was the response, which seems reasonable in this case.
- Pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint, then fired from Papa Johns
- Minister apologises after woman in coma was told to find work—"Sheila Holt was contacted by the Department for Work and Pensions who invited her to attend 'intensive job-focused activity."
- 5 reasons why you shouldn't work too hard WaPo
- I'm quitting my job. Thanks, Obamacare!
- Man with a new, healthy heart says Obamacare saved his life
- Obamacare draws younger consumers online as deadline nears, report says
- Obama's Trauma Team—"How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website."
- More than 12,000 Congressional staffers have enrolled in health plans through Obamacare—"Thousands of people have purchased health coverage through the District of Columbia’s new small-business insurance marketplace, but only a tiny fraction of them actually own or work for a small business. The rest are members of or work for a single large organization — Congress." WaPo
- Hannity Complains That Obamacare May Allow Mothers To Spend More Time With Their Children
- How the GOP's 'Obamacare horror stories' strategy works—"The broader GOP strategy is explicitly all about building a national narrative populated only with wrenching horror stories. [... M]any of the horror stories are turning out to be hyped, bogus, or distorted. But they will have huge sums of money behind them. And scrutiny of them will be met with charges of insensitivity to the victims." How dare you call us out for our paid-for lies! WaPo
- Obamacare 'horror stories' fall apart under scrutiny WaPo
- Oops: GOP Bill Would Strip 1 Million Workers Of Health Coverage—"A Republican-led bill designed to 'save American workers' would cause 1 million workers to lose their health care coverage and increase the deficit by $74 billion, according to Congress' official scorekeeper."
- Florida Restaurants Charging Patrons Obamacare Fee—"... but employees' coverage doesn't start until December...."
- Obama urges supporters to correct misinformation from conservative news—Good luck. WaPo
- The right's sociopathic new scam: Using Americans to harm their own health plans—"GOP-aligned groups are now exploiting innocent people who need Obamacare -- by having them campaign for its demise." Salon
- Awesome New GOP Strategy: Shut Down State Govts Over Obamacare
- The GOP Has Screwed Itself Out Of A Perfect Obamacare Election Message
- Poof! The GOP's Disappearing Promise To Vote To Replace Obamacare
- The 5 Most Shameless GOP Attacks On The Medicare Cuts They Voted For
- Koch Brothers Hire Paid Actors To Star In Attack Ad Claiming Obamacare Hurts Louisiana Residents
- Americans for Prosperity pulls political ads after Koch brothers' Alaska refinery shuts down
- Republicans Busted for Trying to Use Fake IRS Scandal To Protect the Koch Brothers
- Dems hit back at Koch Brothers in Michigan WaPo
- Reid: Koch brothers are 'un-American'—"It's too bad that they're trying to buy America, and it's time that the American people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as un-American as anyone I can imagine." WaPo
- Arkansas House Votes To Kick 96,000 Poor People Off Their Health Plans—One Republican rep who benefited from Medicaid doesn't want it expanded.
- Virginia Conservatives Shoot Down Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion
- Utah Governor Rejects Full Medicaid Expansion, Will Seek Federal Grant To Cover Poor
- False: Scott Walker says federal government reneged on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin
- How One Governor Is Trying To Avoid Responsibility For Denying Health Care To 600,000 Poor People—Holding off even as the fourth Georgia hospital shuts down.
- Banks Fight Revised U.S. Plan to Monitor Checking Overdraft Fees
- Wall Street threatens GOP on bank tax Politico
- Gold Fix Study Shows Signs of Decade of Bank Manipulation
- HSBC hands allowances to hundreds of bankers to avoid EU bonus cap—"Britain's biggest bank awards staff 'fixed pay allowances' to side-step restriction on bonuses imposed by Brussels."
- The incredible stock-picking ability of SEC employees—"Researchers found that regulators are likely to sell stocks of companies that are about to be hit with enforcement actions by the SEC." WaPo
- JPMorgan Chase Class-Action Settlement Is Approved—"A federal judge approved a settlement Friday of a class-action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for its force-placed insurance practices, an agreement that could pay more than $300 million to about 750,000 mortgage borrowers." NYT
- BofA under probe over U.S. housing program, forex—"Bank of America Corp may have a new mortgage problem on its plate, saying on Tuesday that federal investigators are looking into whether the bank violated requirements of a U.S. government housing program."
- Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, hit with lawsuit—And some I-told-you-so's for losing $400 million.
- Why Bitcoin owners should expect to get ripped off again and again
- The Bitcoin Blasphemy—"Created to avoid government, the virtual currency won’t survive without it." NYT
- Internet guffaws at senator's quixotic proposal to ban Bitcoin
- TSA Harasses Traveler After 'Seeing Bitcoin' In His Bag
- Obama seeking $300 billion for roads, railways
- Once again: Yes, the stimulus worked.
- Conservatives Outraged Obama Is Addressing Problems They Blamed On Him
- New Republican Tax Plan Cuts Rates on the Rich
- GOP's New Plan Hikes Taxes On Americans In Blue States—"A central feature of the House Republicans' ambitious new tax reform bill would raise taxes disproportionately on residents of blue states -- especially middle-to-upper income people who live in New York and California."
- Credit Suisse 'aided' US tax evaders—"Credit Suisse 'helped its US customers conceal their Swiss accounts' and avoid billions of dollars in American taxes, a report has alleged."
- No, really, you didn't build that: How the rich became dependent on government subsidies—"A new report reveals America's largest companies aren't the models of self-sufficiency their CEOs seem to think." Salon
- Taxing the rich is good for the economy, IMF says—"Research paper debunks theory that taxing rich people slows overall growth."
- Elizabeth Warren: We Need to Stop Packing the Courts With Corporate Judges
- The shocking numbers behind corporate welfare
- Fortune 500 companies receive $63 billion in subsidies
- What's good for American corporations isn’t necessarily good for Americans
- House GOP Votes To Take 'Consumer' Out Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Christie's Plan: To Shift the Public’s Attention From Scandal Salon
- Why has no one asked Chris Christie about Bridgegate? WaPo
- 'Bridgegate' scandal: New Jersey town releases 911 tapes from traffic jams—"Fort Lee releases tapes that include reports of chest pains, traffic collisions, false fire alarms and dead goose in a parking lot."
- Christie Pals Joked About Causing 'Traffic Problems' At Home Of N.J. Rabbi
- Dem who called for Christie to quit steps down from panel —Idiot.
- U.S. Democrats launch push to expand voting access
- Voter ID is a false crusade—"Impersonation fraud imaginary."
- NY senator calls adding voter registration to hunting license forms an 'NRA voter assistance act'
- Brewer signs repeal of GOP-backed election law changes
- The Arrogance of Voter Suppression Advocates
- Obama: 'There Will Be Costs' For Military Intervention In Ukraine—"President Barack Obama warned Russia that there would be consequences of Russian intervention in Ukrainian Crimea."
- Crimea leader calls on Putin for help as Ukraine crisis deepens
- Russia has 'brought in extra 6,000 troops' to Ukraine
- Neo-Nazis Pour Into Kiev
- Ukraine Journalists Race to Publish Secret Yanukovych Documents
