Wages
Internships may be just another word for exploitation, Labor Dept. says
April 6, 2010The Labor Department is cracking down on unpaid internships, and it has generated a flood of comments on The New York Times web site and elsewhere. No wonder.
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Bronx town hall promotes wage, health bill
March 9, 2010A Bronx town hall meeting promoted a newly introduced City Council bill (Intro 18-2010) that would "guarantee good wages, health care and other benefits" to building service workers.
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Tax Policy and class struggle
February 17, 2010Who pays taxes, the rich or poor, is an important party of the class struggle.
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Even the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’
January 4, 2010It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described...
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‘Young workers: A lost decade’
September 1, 2009Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs, if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare...
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