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Drivers are being asked to deliver up to 200 parcels a day for Amazon while earning less than the minimum wage, a Sunday Mirror investigation reveals today.
I hopped in a white van to spend a day with one driver and experience first-hand the intolerable p ...[Read more]
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The body of a homeless man was found tragically 'frozen to death' in Birmingham's city centre on the coldest night of the year.
Police were called to a car park entrance in Station Road at 11.30pm Wednesday after a local drinking in the nearby boozer disc ...[Read more]
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With GOP tax plan moving ahead and the Obamacare fight in the rearview mirror, Republicans in Congress are setting their sights next on deregulating Wall Street.
Ten Democrats have co-sponsored a bill that would deregulate Wall Street. That makes the GOP- ...[Read more]
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It has been a year since workers at the largest Amazon warehouse in Dunfermline were found camping out in tents in the woods, unable to afford rising rents. Once again the Amazon warehouse is back in the news. ...[Read more]
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U.S. student loan debt now equals the size of the $1.3 trillion U.S. high-yield corporate bond market, presenting investors with a whole different range of risks.
“Delinquency rates on student loans are much higher than those on auto loans or mortgages, ...[Read more]
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday said House Republicans will aim to cut spending on Medicare, Medicaid and welfare programs next year as a way to trim the federal deficit.
“We’re going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, ...[Read more]
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The British chancellor faces a storm of criticism after claiming that disabled people are partially responsible for the country’s low production efficiency.
Facing a question brought up by the Treasury Select Committee about low productivity levels in t ...[Read more]
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If the Republican tax cuts bill becomes law, it will immediately trigger a $25 billion cut in Medicare. That's because of mandatory spending cuts that will kick in as a result the tax bill’s $1.5 trillion increase to the deficit. The last time this happ ...[Read more]
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Amazon workers are so exhausted by long hours and relentless targets they are falling asleep on their feet, according to a new investigation. Employees reportedly had timed toilet breaks, a claim denied by the company.
Some were made to do compulsory ov ...[Read more]
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High-ranking Republicans are hinting that, after their tax overhaul, the party intends to look at cutting spending on welfare, entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and other parts of the social safety net.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan ...[Read more]
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In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and foreign aid (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, ...[Read more]
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