Top Stories
America's First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but many journalists covering some of the country's major events are being hounded, rather than protected. An increasing number are reportedly being arrested, just for doing their jobs. Anastasia ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program.
Nearly half of them live in California, and the rest reside in Florida, Illinois, North Carolin ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
In his March 6 Executive Order, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine,” Obama declares that support for Crimean self-determination constitutes “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
Since last september, over 320 top level directors, executives, chairmen and ceos have resigned from major financial institutions, including central banks, major international banks, investment funds, and other financial entities. The list is huge, with m ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The damage to our educational infrastructure is growing, according to Catherine Rampell's chilling report in the New York Times. As state funding has dwindled, public colleges have raised tuition and are now resorting to even more desperate measures ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
Curious web app counts the increasing disparage in between the pay of an average citizen and of a ceo over time. The counter is real time, and also has some statistics regarding recent history, with visual representation of the disparage. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Victor1558)In July 2010, Congress passed the...In July 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd- ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
TED Talk : Richard Wilkinson :
"We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effec ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
Rich Venture capital investor, and the first person who had invested in Amazon from outside the family, tells his hi-tech audience in a TED talk that rich people do not create jobs - middle and lower class people who buy things, do. And he tells governmen ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}