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How Alabama’s Extreme Anti-Immigration Law Could Cost The State Billions of Dollars

Michele Waslin, Immigration Impact. February 10, 2012.

The harsh law could cost Alabama up to $11 billion in GDP and nearly $265 million in state income and sales tax, a new report found.

How Rich Executives Extract Concessions From Workers -- While Playing the Good Guy in Public

Laura Clawson, Daily Kos. February 6, 2012.

That's what's on the rise: Management attempting to exercise control over their workers -- in a brutal display of power. Give in to us or lose your paycheck right now.

6 Things You Should Know About Arizona's Worse-Than-Wisconsin's Attack on Public Workers

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. February 5, 2012.

Jan Brewer has decided to get in on the union-busting action, introducing a bill that makes Ohio's and Wisconsin's attacks on public workers look mild.

Keystone XL Opponents Need a Jobs Program

Brendan Smith, Jeremy Brecher, AlterNet. February 4, 2012.

The Keystone campaign was a great success, but environmental advocates must still convince the public that they care about jobs.

The Right-Wing Zombie Lie About Public Workers That Just Won't Die

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. February 2, 2012.

A new study on government employees' earnings has the Right buzzing -- and some progressive pundits repeating the myth that government workers are "overpaid."

What Liberals are Still Missing About Inequality: Decades of Outsourcing and Union-Busting by the 1%

Roger Bybee, In These Times. January 31, 2012.

Many of America’s most liberal mainstream pundits have narrowed the debate over inequality, perhaps out of a desire to shield Obama from pressure coming from his left.

Obama's Union-Busting New Chief of Staff? Jacob Lew Helped Destroy Grad Students' Union at NYU

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. January 29, 2012.

When Obama's new Chief of Staff was NYU executive vice president, school ceased recognizing the grad students' union.

Time to Break Up Zombie Bank of America?

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. January 26, 2012.

The B of A death watch continues as a new petition calls for federal regulators to dismantle the big bank before it implodes.

Mitch Daniels' State of the Union Response Shows GOP Priority: Beating Up on Workers

Josh Eidelson, AlterNet. January 25, 2012.

Daniels’ response was the first to be delivered from a building surrounded by dozens of police cars and chanting activists, protesting his latest anti-union move.

Jobs Won't Come Back to America Until the Government Pushes Greedy Corporate Executives to Invest at Home

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. January 23, 2012.

Without bold government action on behalf of our workforce, good American jobs will continue to disappear.

Occupy San Francisco Takes the Fight to Local Banks in Ambitious Next Step for Movement

Gary Kamiya, Salon. January 22, 2012.

After a brief hibernation, a refocused movement takes aim at corporate America--specifically, Wells Fargo and Bank of America on "Wall Street West."

Men's Earnings Haven't Just Stagnated Over Past 40 Years--They've Fallen

Meteor Blades, Daily Kos. January 15, 2012.

A new report shows that full-time male workers in the United States were making less in real, that is, inflation-adjusted, dollars in 2009 than they were in 1969.

As Occupy Wall Street Has Changed Protest Dynamics, Vibrant Groups Like United Students Against Sweatshops Are Back in the Forefront

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. January 15, 2012.

USAS has been fighting steadily for workers' rights even when the issue wasn't front-page news--and they're helping spearhead a new movement for economic justice.

Why Are US Job Numbers Better Than Europe’s? Thank the Deficit!

Marshall Auerback, AlterNet. January 9, 2012.

Americans should quit listening to austerity hawks and embrace time-tested economic logic.

Meet the Man Behind "Citizens United": What Does the Ultra-Conservative Lawyer Have Planned Next?

Viveca Novak, The American Prospect. January 8, 2012.

James Bopp is already well into the next phase of his crusade to topple as many of the limits on the role of money in politics as can be done in one man’s lifetime.

Can Gift Exchange Fix the Problems of Capitalism and Rebuild our Lost Community?

Charles Eisenstein, Shareable. January 1, 2012.

The reclamation of the gift-based commonwealth not only hastens the collapse of a growth-dependent money system, it also mitigates its severity.

Good News for Low-Paid Home Health Care Workers: Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay On the Way

R. M. Arrieta, In These Times. December 18, 2011.

New regulations would give nearly 2 million home-care workers, most of whom are women and many women of color, wage and hour protections for the first time.

Who Protects Info You Give To Offshored Call Centers?

David Johnson, Smirking Chimp. December 18, 2011.

Speaking to people in other countries, who we may not be able to understand, is frustrating. Even worse is that this is one more job that someone here used to do.

If You Are Not Outraged, You Are Not Paying Attention: 5 Major Ways Corporate Elites Are Degrading America

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. December 14, 2011.

While it can be disheartening to see the smallness of those in power, don't let it get you down, for they want us to become so disheartened that we give up.

How Anticorporate Sentiment Might Just Have Killed the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. December 6, 2011.

AT&T withdrew its application from the FCC to take over T-Mobile. So is the merger dead? And if so, who killed it?

The Stop Online Piracy Act is Class War in Cyberspace, Enriching the 1% at the Expense of the 99%

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. December 5, 2011.

SOPA would require every web site in the country to become unpaid copyright enforcement officers for Time Warner, Disney and The Washington Post, among others.

Thanks to Nurses Union and Occupy Wall Street, Pressure for Wall Street Speculation Tax Grows

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. November 30, 2011.

With the nation's (and the world's) focus back on Wall Street, the possibility of a financial transaction tax is looking more likely.

7 Ways to Support the Real Job Creator: Main Street

John Cavanagh, David Korten, YES! Magazine. November 30, 2011.

It turns out that most job creation in the United States is the result of Main Street entrepreneurs, not Wall Street financial wizards.

Starbucks' Crackpot Solution to Jobs Crisis

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. November 22, 2011.

The program will no doubt boost Starbucks' image--and the density of red, white, and blue wristbands across America. But jobs? Not so much.

The First Political Victory for the 99% Movement

Andy Kroll, TomDispatch.com. November 20, 2011.

The unsung victors in the hottest election of 2011? Occupy Wall Street.

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