Dont Worry, I am sure those Tax Cuts for the Rich Will Fix it All...

How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked InRestrictions once limited to executives are now spreading across the labor landscape - making it tougher for Americans to get a raise ( Read more... )

Capitalism Asks Starving Poor Masses to "Voluntarily" withhold their Appetite in the Name of the Free Market to Protect Price Stability.

Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glutIowa farmer Karl Fox is drowning in corn ( Read more... )

Boko Haram: 'Senior fighters killed' in Nigeria raid

Group's leader Abubakar Shekau believed to be fatally wounded in air strike carried out by the military, say officials


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For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency.

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Is there a dark cloud on the horizon for this Indian Country success story ( Read more... )

▶ Policy on Syrians is a flashpoint for presidential contest
▶ The UN has cut food and medicine rations for lack of funding

At least 15 U.S. companies led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Alphabet Inc. have pledged money to help the Obama administration resettle refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war and other international conflicts.The White House ( Read more... )

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The man who accused Whole Foods Market of writing a homophobic slur on a cake will drop a lawsuit against the grocery chain.

“The company did nothing wrong,” Pastor Jordan Brown said in a statement. “I was wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story.”Brown had sued Whole Foods on April 18, ( Read more... )

(published May 9, 2016)

Chicken is the most popular meat in America, and the poultry industry is booming. But workers on the processing line do not share in the bounty. Poultry workers 1) earn low wages of diminishing value, 2) suffer elevated rates of injury and illness, and 3) often experience a climate of fear in the workplace.

Despite this, ( Read more... )

“You’re not providing for [your family], I am.”

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Video posted on YouTube shows a woman at a Walmart store loudly berating a man who was paying for his groceries with food stamps.

As a child sits in the man’s shopping cart looking on, the woman complains about how she is paying for his food with her tax money“You know, I put in 50-60 hour weeks ( Read more... )