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Gen-Y's pain is real: Paycheques tell the tale

Young adults are not to blame for their financial frustrations. Their problem is an economy that has put them on track to be worse off than their parents. So much for the theorizing about them being

Nov 29

Wildcat Strikes Push China to Write New Labor Laws

Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. "

Nov 29

MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a small cluster of neurons, the researchers were able to force the subject to ...

Nov 29

Chinese electronics workers win 20% pay rise after three week strike

A three week strike involving 5,000 workers at an electronics company in Shenzhen, China, has ended after the bosses agreed to a 20% hike in pay. The strike started on the 31st October after the ...

Nov 29

WASHINGTON - THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, and they embedded this ...

Nov 24

Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? - Slashdot

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "John Sutter writes at CNN that as Swiss citizens vote on November 24 to consider capping executive pay at 12 times what the lowest-paid worker at a company makes in a ...

Nov 24

Yep, Being a Young, American Adult Is a Financial Nightmare

Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60. But you

Nov 24

ChangeEngine by ChangingMedia | How Free Money Can Save Us All

While Baltimore attempts to ban the destitute from its streets and those who rely on food stamps to meet their basic needs face cuts, a radical experiment in poverty reduction is being contemplated

Nov 24

More Cities Consider Using Eminent Domain to Halt Foreclosures

New cities are joining the effort to head off home foreclosures by using a twist on the power of eminent domain, despite threats of financial retaliation from Wall Street and Washington. On ...

Nov 24