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November 26, 2010 | By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau
Supreme Court handling of Wal-Mart appeal will have wider implications - latimes.com
America in the ’aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country’s most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreich’s widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory and finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite have bought up congressmen, many in the working class can barely buy lunch.
This Land Is Their Land: Reports ... - Google Books
No Union Please, We're Wal-Mart
If Wal-Mart ( WMT ) founder Sam Walton had been prone to nightmares, they probably would have looked a lot like the big-box store in Jonquière, Que., on this Friday evening in April, 2005.
Karen Ignagni, CEO of the lobbying group America's Health Insurance Plans LAST YEAR, the Democrats passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), claiming it was a major victory for the American people and a blow against a chronic oppositionist Republican Party that voted almost unanimously against it. The law, we were told, was a landmark domestic achievement on par with the passage of Medicare.
Waiving away health care reform | SocialistWorker.org
» Politics of living wage:The 1964 lesson::Vanguard (Nigeria)
By Owei Lakemfa A WEEK ago, the country was in the throes of an avoidable warning strike. It centered around a six-month agreement to pay N18,000 as the new minimum wage in the country. That agreement was unique as all stakeholders agreed on the new wage; small and medium scale entrepreneurs, the Manufacturers Association, Chambers of Commerce, the employers association, Labour, Federal and state governments. In fact, the 13 state governments which made written memoranda to the Tripartite Committee of the National Minimum Wage made an average proposal to set the new minimum wage at N22,500. But in a turn of events, some state governors decided that N18,000 is too much for a worker to earn in offices employing a minimum of 50 workers.
Back in July 2007, Sen. Ted Kennedy vowed to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour. That was just after the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 raised the federal minimum amount to $5.85 from $5.15.
Daily Kos: Minimum wage needs permanent fix
Duncan , professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, has focused her career on poverty in America and is director of the University's Carsey Institute.
FRONTLINE: country boys: readings: why poverty persists in appalachia | PBS
A recent trip down to the hollers of Kentucky opened my and my fellow travelers' eyes to the true face of poverty in America. Destitution is alive and well within the region called Appalachia, and has resulted in a beautiful mountain range of hopelessness. Here I wish to give you a first-hand account of the living conditions in poverty-stricken Appalachia, so that you will be able to see what I saw.
Poverty in Appalachia: Third World Living Conditions in America?, Page 2 of 2 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
A study focused on the effects of Wal-Mart stores on poverty rates found that an estimated 20,000 families nationwide have fallen below the official poverty line as a result of the chain's expansion. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., ranked No. 5 on the St.
Study finds Wal-Mart contributes to poverty | St. Louis Business Journal
The Yeshiva World WalMart Struggles To Open NYC Store Against Union Opposition « » Frum Jewish News
Big Apple residents spent $165 million last year to buy low-cost products at Walmart’s suburban stores because there aren’t any outlets in the five boroughs, according to an analysis obtained by The Post.But it was supposed to happen sooner. Annual limits on payouts are already being phased out under the health care law; as of Sept. 23, they aren't allowed to fall below $750,000, which is a whole lot more than McDonald's' $2,000, $5,000, or $10,000. But HHS signaled it was willing to grant waivers to mini-meds.
Crap health coverage wins a regulatory victory. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Rules Eased for Some Health Plans - WSJ.com
WASHINGTON—Amid pressure from employers, the Obama administration on Monday loosened rules for bare-bones health-insurance policies. It marks one of the administration's biggest steps to peel back regulations that big business found onerous under the health- care overhaul. McDonald's Corp. had warned regulators it might have to drop its health-insurance plans for 30,000 hourly workers unless it got an exemption for these policies, which have low premiums but also limit payments for medical costs.AFL-CIO President on Midterm Losses, Obama's Problems, and Working With the GOP - Chris Good - Politics - The Atlantic
The nation's desperate economic situation has cost Democrats their largest majorities in recent memory.San Francisco, with its Victorian buildings and ethnic neighborhoods, each with a personality of its own, has long been a destination spot for tourists. Every year the city’s Chinatown district, one of the oldest in North America, draws visitors who love the little shops, fresh fish and vegetables and the abundance of restaurants specializing in authentic Chinese food. More than 100 restaurants line the 0.13 square miles that is Chinatown.