Labor

Defying Michigan Voters, Gov. Rick Snyder Takes Over Detroit

By Harriet Rowan / PR Watch

In November, Michiganders voted the state's undemocratic Emergency Financial Manager law out of existence. But that didn't keep Snyder and legislators from claiming control of Motor City.

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Will the Banks Be Allowed to Bilk Americans the Way Cyprus Tried to Shake Down Its Citizens?

By Leo Gerard / AlterNet

Are the Chicago School Closings Racist?

By Samantha Winslow / Labor Notes

Corporations Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Ever While Lobbying For Even Bigger Tax Breaks

By Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress

Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA)

By Stacy Mitchell / AlterNet

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Labor

Meet the CEO Who Cut Worker Pay in Half While Pulling in $21 Million Last Year

Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Save the Postal Service! Sunday Day of Action

Jamie Partridge / Labor Notes

One Reason GOP Loves the Sequester: It Punishes Union Workers

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

How Student Loans Are Keeping You Out Of The Middle Class

Zach Duffy / Campus Progress

Are Your Clothes Made in a Sweatshop?

Jake Blumgart / Salon

CVS to Penalize Workers Who Don't Fork Over Personal Health Information

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Can Unions Save the Arts and Other 'Creative' Professions?

Scott Timberg / Salon

Smacking Down Right Wing Lies About Labor Nominee Tom Perez

Hannah Groch-Begley, Sergio Munoz, Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America

The Real Reason Scout Prouty Leaked the Famous Romney "47%" Video -- It Was Over Romney Profiting from Slave Labor

Marty Kaplan / AlterNet

What Recovery? Across America, People in Distressed Cities and Small Towns Face Economic Catastrophe

Louis Ferleger, Jacob M. Magid / AlterNet

The 21st-Century Version of Slavery Is Widespread In America

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Republicans: There's No Debt Crisis, We Just Want to Screw the Poor

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Why Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business

Amy Dean / YES! Magazine

Restaurant Horror Show: How Servers Are Abused

Matt Frassica / Salon.com

With Inequality Spiraling Out of Control It's Insane to Consider Cutting Social Security

Sarah Anderson / AlterNet

Walker's Anti-Union Law Should Remain Blocked, Court Says

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

Portland Becomes 4th U.S. City With Paid Sick Leave Law

Jane Farrell / ThinkProgress

'Lean In' All You Want -- But If You Want a Better Job, Unionize! (What the CEOS of Facebook and Yahoo! Won't Tell You)

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

New Study Finds the Wealthy Are Different

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

L.A. Teachers' Union Beats Back Attempt by Bloomberg, Rhee and Murdoch to Buy School Board

Samantha Winslow / Labor Notes

Welcome to Ayn Rand Planet: Why the Rich Prosper from the Stock Market While We Get Screwed

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Why People React Differently to Panhandlers (Hard Times USA)

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Minimum-Wage Opponents Demand Their Freedom to Exploit

Julie Gutman Dickinson / AlterNet

No More Excuses: Soaring Market Latest Evidence of Need to Tax Wall Street

Deborah Burger / AlterNet

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