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Pharoah Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. May 18, 2012.

New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?

Low-Wage Workers in New York Come Together to Fight Greedy Bosses

Camille Rivera, AlterNet. May 18, 2012.

May Day, the Occupy movement and the 99 percent narrative have raised the voices of low-wage workers who joined together under the banner "Organize, Legalize, and Unionize."

Where Are the Missing 5 Million Workers? In the Underground Economy

Laura Flanders, The Nation. May 18, 2012.

The “underground” is always with us. For better and often for worse, it’s how marginalized populations tend to survive—often not very well.

GOP Version of Violence Against Women Act Tries to Push Women Back Into the Home

Michelle Chen, In These Times. May 17, 2012.

By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, the legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still at home.

Ehrenreich: How Corporations and Local Governments Rob the Poor Blind

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.

7 Foreclosure Horror Stories (And One Possible Win)

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. May 9, 2012.

Around the country, families are being tossed out of their homes with astonishing regularity, with local law enforcement enlisted to do the bidding of big banks.

Why I Had to Get Out: Confessions of a Wall Street Insider

Alexis Goldstein, N+1 Magazine. May 1, 2012.

The culture of Wall Street is pervasive and contagious. I drank the Kool Aid. I'm out of it now. But I'd like to tell you what it was like.

Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs?

Frank Joyce, AlterNet. April 29, 2012.

Humans will always work. But that whole employee-employer thing is optional. It's time to start looking for another model.

The New Depression: Waves of Suicide in the Age of Austerity

Michelle Chen, In These Times. April 29, 2012.

Suicide starts to seem a strangely rational measure of life’s cheapness in a monetized society--people’s logical response to a loss of control over their destinies.

May Day's Radical History: What Occupy Is Fighting for This May 1st

Jacob Remes, AlterNet. April 27, 2012.

Occupy actions planned on May Day are tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement.

Labor and Environmentalists Must Work Together to Build a Real Green Jobs Agenda

Jane McAlevey, The Nation. April 24, 2012.

To move past the divisive politics of the Keystone battle, we must build a movement that puts both economic justice and climate action at the center of its demands.

Asleep at the Wheel: How Deregulation of the Bus Industry Could Get You Killed

Larry Hanley, Labor Notes. April 22, 2012.

Bus accidents kill about 50 and injure almost 1,000 other innocent passengers every year—and the biggest reason is driver fatigue.

New Organizing Campaign Aims to Change the Way We Think About Work--And Each Other

Laura Flanders, The Nation. April 16, 2012.

America's aging population is going to need care in the coming years--Caring Across Generations aims to create millions of good jobs and redefine our relationships to one another.

Can Jobs Grow From Marijuana? Spanish Village Considers Using Pot to Rebuild Economy

Staff, Agence France Presse. April 11, 2012.

In an urgent bid to create jobs and raise money to pay off debts, the village council of Rasquera will hold a vote to rent out a field for growing cannabis.

How Occupy Wall Street Plans to Take Down Bank of America--And How You Can Help

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. April 8, 2012.

While there's almost nothing B of A does that is for the people, it sure as hell is paid for by the people. Now activists are pushing to break it up before it breaks down--again.

Labor Leaders Join Civil Rights Groups to Fight Alabama's Draconian Immigration Law

Kari Lydersen, In These Times. April 8, 2012.

Union leaders, Latino community organizations, and others are heading to foreign car companies' shareholder meetings to demand they denounce Alabama's anti-immigrant law.

Fired for Wearing the Wrong Color Shirt: The Scary Truth About Our Lack of Workplace Protections

Jake Blumgart, AlterNet. April 3, 2012.

Most American workers labor under the auspices of employment-at-will, which allows employers to hire, fire and promote for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all.

Politicians Swallow Pink Slime to Prove Their Allegiance to Corporations

Leo Gerard, AlterNet. April 3, 2012.

Just as in the case of pink slime, the interests of flesh-and-blood people and corporations frequently conflict.

GE Unleashes Propaganda Campaign To Hide Its Tiny Tax Burden and Mass Layoffs

Roger Bybee, In These Times. March 25, 2012.

GE paid an average of 2.3% in taxes over the last ten years, while slashing its US workforce by 32,000 jobs. But its new ad campaign aims to whitewash all that.

'From War and Enemies to Justice and Humanity': Candidate for Mexico's Presidency Says He Would End Drug War

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. March 22, 2012.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his government would end the War on Drugs, and instead concentrate on creating jobs and fighting corruption.

Why are Gas Prices Rising? Ask the 1%ers Shuttering Refineries and Eliminating Jobs

Leo Gerard, AlterNet. March 21, 2012.

As fuel prices rise, Sunoco, ConocoPhillips, and Hovensa are closing the very facilities essential for producing fuels. It raises the question: why would corporations do that?

Will New York City Mayoral Front-Runner Kill Paid Sick Leave Again?

Josh Eidelson, In These Times. March 20, 2012.

With a changed economy, targeted concessions and an approaching primary, progressives mount a renewed push for a citywide law.

When 30% of Workers are Freelance, How Do They Build Power On the Job?

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Dissent Magazine. March 18, 2012.

How does one organize a workforce that is, by definition, unaffiliated? How do you hold your employers accountable when you cannot strike?

Trials of a Stay-at-Home Boyfriend

Tyler Moss, Salon. March 14, 2012.

I realize now that life with a liberal arts degree is self-inflicted. Every day the gap in my job history expands is another day I struggle to find myself.

The Biggest Engine of Economic Growth? 8 Ways Taxpayers and the Government Are Necessary to Capitalism

Colin Greer, AlterNet. March 13, 2012.

Almost everything the American capitalist system needs is provided by taxpayer dollars and government action.

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