- Meet 204 Republicans Who Don't Want to Punish Companies That Steal Workers' Wages
- Days After Decrying Flat Wages, McConnell Proposes Lowering Wages by $13 Billion
- How Walmart's Low Wages Cost All Americans, Not Just Its Workers
- Canada: Walmart wrong to fire unionized workers, high court says—"Supreme Court rules 5-2 in favour of 190 Quebec who lost jobs after first unionized Walmart shut its doors."
- Unions Fear This SCOTUS Case Could Bring Their 'Final Destruction'
- American Workers Need Overtime Protections
- Qatar police respond to fight at Sheraton Doha hotel
- Tech industry job ads: Older workers need not apply
- Faygo accused of age discrimination - by founder's grandson
- Miss Delaware, 24, loses crown for being too old
- Singer sued for being too old and ugly for Pink cover band
- Zillow's Rich Barton on the $15 minimum wage, Uber regulations, and why the U.S. is filled with entrepreneurial 'freedom fighters'
- Ikea to raise its average minimum hourly wage to $10.76 LA Times
- Massachusetts: Minimum wage increase doesn't add up to a living wage—"The state's new $11 minimum wage –the highest in the nation -- will make low-wage workers' lives a little more stable, and less stressful. But not necessarily comfortable."
- A Minimum Wage That Makes More Sense—"Accounting for regional price differences is sound strategy when setting state or local minimum wages." NYT
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
- Taking a Vacation May Actually Save Your Career—"Workaholism is hurting the American economy."
- Unblinking Eyes Track Employees: Workplace Surveillance Sees Good and Bad—"Abundant data, smart software and cheap sensors are beginning to make it possible to measure and monitor employees as never before." NYT
- An Employee Dies, and the Company Collects the Insurance—"Many companies insure their employees’ lives with themselves as beneficiaries, a practice some deride as immoral. But companies say the policies, for which they get tax breaks, help them bolster pensions and health care." NYT
- Obama Says US Should Offer Paid Maternity Leave—Right-wingers say no [Salon]
- North Dakota coffee shop has no employees, runs entirely on the honor system…and it's working
- Job interviews reward narcissists, punish applicants from modest cultures
- Ex-Goldman Trader Calls $8.25 Million Bonus Unfair, Told Mom He'd Get More—They really are too big to jail.
- New York attorney general accuses Barclays of 'dark pool' fraud
- Grassley's Hunt For An Obama Insider Trading Scandal Backfires On GOP
- House GOP Staffer Allegedly Changed His Story In Insider Trading Probe
- House Passes Bill To Aid Koch Brothers, Deregulate Wall Street
- China's commodity-lending fraud just got $15 billion bigger
- Krugman: Sympathy for the Trustafarians NYT
- Higher taxes do not kill jobs—"County-level BLS data tell the true story about job growth."
- Tax cuts in Kansas have cost the state money — and job creation's been terrible WaPo
- Robert Reich on America's Koch Problem
- In US, over 75 per cent of conservatives say the poor 'have it easy'
- Elizabeth Warren says the U.S. economy is rigged. Many conservatives agree. WaPo
- Conspiracy of the plutocrats: Secrets of the wealth-inequality explosion revealed Salon
- Detroit's Water War: a tap shut-off that could impact 300,000 people—"A right-wing state and corporate push to cut off water is economic shock therapy at its most ruthless and racist, but resistance is growing."
- Debtors Prisons Are Taking the US Back to the 19th Century—"In recent years, more and more cells have been filled with poor individuals who are caught in a vile trap, unable to pay court fines."
- What wealth gap? Danish welfare narrows disparity WaPo
- The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy—"The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth."
- Nick Hanauer: The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats Politico
- The United States Of Cruelty—"We are cheap. We are suspicious. We will shoot first. It does not have to be this way. Like Lincoln before us, it is time to do something about it."
- 73-year-old veteran loses his job for allegedly giving a muffin to a homeless man
- Chinese tycoon's free lunch for homeless New Yorkers backfires—"Controversial businessman Chen Guangbiao angered homeless people in New York after promising them $300 each and failing to deliver."
- Flipside: Woman launches mobile showers for the homeless—"A San Francisco woman creates a "shower bus" to help accommodate the city's 3,500 homeless people. Vanessa Johnston reports."
- Disappointed Immigration Applicants Sue Canada—"More than 1,400 Chinese plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian immigration authorities after Canada announced it was canceling its immigrant investor program along with tens of thousands of outstanding applications." NYT
- Mainland Chinese line up for Australia's 'millionaire visa'
- Cashed-up Chinese students turn to Australia
- China targets officials who sent families abroad—"China's anti-graft campaign is now targeting officials who have sent their spouses and children abroad, where they can create channels to potentially funnel illicit gains and establish footholds for eventual escape from the mainland."
- The brain injury that made me a math genius—"Twelve years ago, Jason Padgett had never made it past pre-algebra. And then a violent mugging changed everything." Salon
- Notation, notation, notation: a brief history of mathematical symbols—The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book."
- The secret history of numbers: How math shapes our lives in amazing, unpredictable ways—"The relationship between people and numbers is so much more fascinating than simple dollars and cents." Salon
- Universities 'get poor value' from academic journal-publishing firms—"Research finds secrecy over contracts has stopped some institutions realising they are paying too much for journals."
- The U.S. Should Invest In Science, Not War
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson: US need not lose its edge in science—"The famed astrophysicist says there's a reason some chemical elements are named for places in the US -- and that we don't have to leave those glory days in the past."
- Asia's Cult of Intelligence—"With its 'cult of ignorance and anti-intellectualism' the U.S. risks falling behind rivals in Asia."
- xkcd: People are stupid
- Largest Active Volcano on Earth Rumbles Back to Life—"Recent quake swarms signal that magma is squeezing into Mauna Loa's magma storage chambers in the same spots below where the 1984 eruption occurred."
- Earth and Moon Are 60 Million Years Older Than Previously Believed
- Traces of another world found on the Moon—"Researchers have found evidence of the world that crashed into the Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon."
- The Moon is Now a Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Strange New World Discovered: The 'Mega Earth'
- A Klingon is currently commander of the International Space Station
- Astronaut Sally Ride and the Burden of Being The First
- The Curiosity rover has been on Mars for one Martian year. It celebrated by taking a selfie. WaPo
- Big Bang blunder bursts the multiverse bubble—"Premature hype over gravitational waves highlights gaping holes in models for the origins and evolution of the Universe, argues Paul Steinhardt."
- Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
- NASA detects mysterious signal 240 million light years away from Earth
- The Timey Wimey Spacey Wacey Explanation of Relativity
- Avoiding "Sagan Syndrome." Why Astronomers and Journalists should pay heed to Biologists about ET.
- Star Within a Star: Weird Stellar 'Hybrid' Discovered—Red supergiant replaced its core with a neutron star.workers
- Collection of three supermassive black holes detected
- Mystery object in lake on Saturn's moon Titan intrigues scientists—"Nasa's Cassini probe took image last year as it passed by planet's largest moon – nothing seen when other images taken."
- Titan's Atmosphere May be Older than Saturn, a New Study Suggests
