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Federal Contractor Executives Get $24 Billion Per Year, While Low Wage Workers Fight for More Than $8.25/Hour
Hundreds of federally-contracted workers protest against the largest low wage job creator, the federal government.
Economic Update: Economic Downturns
Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update, including the meaning and economic impact on US of Washington struggles over the debt ceiling, and responds to listeners in this segment.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Sen. Ted Cruz Takes Senate Floor to Launch a Phony Filibuster, and More
On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz took the floor of the Senate to launch an all-night phony filibuster, and more.
The F Word: Domestic Workers Aren’t Members of the Family
The Obama administration announced it will finally extend minimum wage and overtime protections to domestic workers, a change labor and community groups have pushed for.
Depreciation of the Rupee Points to India’s Need to Build Capital Controls, Participate in International Financial Rule-Making
The rupee plunged by 3.7 percent on the day in its biggest single-day percentage fall in more than two decades.
On Reinventing the Meaning of Politics and What Needs to Be Done
A global war to resurrect a sense of
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Even Business Lobbyists Oppose a Government Shutdown, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Chamber of Commerce knows that a government shutdown will hurt families and corporations alike; Typhoon Man-yi forced Japan's Fukushimaoperators to release more …
Five Years Later
As Iu2019ve gotten older, Iu2019ve become more and more convinced that we get where we are because of luck as much as anything else, in the business world as …
Economic Update: Workers Fight Back
Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update and responds to listeners in this segment.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Asks Business Groups to Help Avoid Another Economic Crisis, and More
President Obama raised the pressure on Congressional Republicans, and asked business groups to help avoid another economic crisis.