by Leo Gerard | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog
Five years ago, a 47-year-old Missouri woman began a duplicitous on-line courtship through MySpace with a 13-year-old neighbor who once had been friends with the woman’s daughter. The adult, Lori Drew, flirted with the 13-year-old, Megan Meier, through the guise of a...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Music was Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's second career. News reports say he began dealing crack at the age of twelve, after the murder of his coke-dealer mother. Early tracks like "Ghetto Quran" and "How to Rob" reflect a brutal, street-hustling life, and Jackson has the...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
How does America dig out of the hole we are in? Surely the focus must be on first principles: how do we recreate an economy that works for working people? With the right talking about a return to the principles of the Constitution, it is worth remembering how...
by Bill Scher | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog
As Republicans prepared to take over the House, they announced one of their first bills would be the repeal of health reform because "that's what the American people want." If that's true, and repealing health reform is simply a sound policy decision called upon by...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog
Since the 80s many employers have stopped offering health care, pensions and other benefits to their employees. Many are also cutting pay and hours, while increasing the workload. So more and more people are hurting. As more and more of us fall further and further...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 11, 2011 | Blog
I came across this great, short video from the PA AFL-CIO titled A Brief History Of Unions: Well this got me "sucked into YouTube" as my wife and I call it... and I came across a few other interesting short videos: Labor History Part I Labor History Part II Labor...
