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84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

The report arrives in the midst of a national movement in the industry for better wages and the right to unionize.

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Cambodia Shoe Factory Collapse Kills 2

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Milwaukee Makes Five (Cities So Far): Fast Food Workers Strike for Higher Pay and Union Rights

By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

College Execs have Private Jets? New Report Finds Public University Presidents Live Large

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

The 182 Percent Loan? How Installment Lenders Trap Borrowers

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84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft

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Breaking Down This Week's Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

AlterNet

Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced to Wait at Security Checkpoints Without Getting Paid

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families

Robert Kuttner / Knopf Publishing

Indispensable Guide: Where to Shop to Avoid Buying from Businesses that Endanger Workers

Bryce Covert / Think Progress

Casinos Are Booming Thanks to State Governments' Need to Exploit Gambling Addicts for Revenue

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Why Clean Air and Worker Justice Are in Peril at America's Ports

Paul Rosenberg / AlterNet

Why the Person Building Your Next House Might Just Be a Woman

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

Pregnant T-Mobile Employee Forced to Take Vacation Time to Use Bathroom, Fired Over 12 Cent Error

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Workers Around the World Unite For May Day

AFP

It's All Too Easy to Get Fired in America: In 49 of 50 States, You Can Be Fired for Any Reason

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

The Top 10 Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama -- None of Them Are Good

Bruce A. Dixon / Black Agenda Report

Why Economic Criminals View Bangladesh as a Model for Workers Everywhere

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Pilots and Professors Barely Scraping By? 9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Chicago's Fast Food and Other Low Wage Workers Stage One-Day Walk Out

Josh Eidelson / Salon

Billions of Corporate Dollars Are Hijacking University Research to Help Make Profits

Joaquin Palomino / East Bay Express

Are the Banks Already Orchestrating Another Meltdown?

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

American People Fight Obama’s Treacherous Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

PLAY: “Space Invaders” With a Twist -- New “Tax Evaders” Game Makes Corporations Pay Fair Share

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Give The People What They Want! Taxes That Pay for Jobs, Education, Healthcare and Science

Mattea Kramer / Tom Dispatch

Want to Get Americans Off Junk Food? Pay Them a Living Wage

Jill Richardson / Other Words

Chris Christie & Wisconsin's Scott Walker Are Right-Wing Soul Brothers: What It Means for Unions and Progressives

Don Hazen / AlterNet

Moyers: Imagine If America Had Adopted Martin Luther King's Economic Dream

Bill Moyers, James Cone, Taylor Branch / BillMoyers.com

Public Schools, Billionaire Agendas: The Threat of the 'Parent Revolution' Campaign

Gary Cohn / Frying Pan News

45 Years After MLK Assassination, What Have We Learned?

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

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