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Seven Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare
Obama's plan for social security would be economically irresponsible, socially disruptive and morally repugnant.
Richard Wolff on Putting Workers in Charge at Work
Richard Wolff is a professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Democracy at Work.
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Subsidies Play “Significant Role” in Climate Change, IMF Says
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging national governments around the world to roll back or eliminate subsidies on petroleum-based energy sources.
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Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike
Far from indulging in a “we've got ours” mentality, the workers are intent on maintaining solidarity with workers still cursed with a boss.
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AFL-CIO: Citizenship, NOT Guest Workers
Every person who works in this country – regardless where he or she was born and regardless how long he or she has been here – must be entitled …
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Judicial Amendments and the Attack on Worker Rights
There's almost no part of the National Labor Relations Act that hasn't been weakened by amendments.
Stagnant Wages and Speculation Triggered the Crisis
There's another line of thought about the cause of the economic crisis, which is: the underlying issue is that in fact it's a crisis of inequality.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Gun-Lobby Squares Off Against Stricter Gun Controls, and More
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The gun-lobby has been squaring off against advocates for stricter gun control; Stockton, California is broke; Euro zone broke another unemployment record; and …
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Women Unionists of the Arab Spring Battle Two Foes: Sexism and Neoliberalism
The meeting of women trade unionists in Tunis provided a forum to share stories.
Gender Wage Gap Is Shrinking – Male Wages Are Going Down
Economist Bill Black: Male workers' wages are going down, which makes gap appear smaller; in higher incomes levels, gap is actually getting wider.