Tag Archives: Jobs
Wal-Mart Opts To Not Sign Garment Factory Safety Agreement, Creates Own Policy
May 18, 2013
After clothing brands for many Western-owned retailers were found in the rubble of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh last month, many fashion brands have announced plans to improve worker safety....
House Committee Set To OK Cuts To Food Stamp Funding
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive.
The cuts are part of a massive five-year farm bill that costs almost...
Detroit Is Broke: Could Bankruptcy Lie Ahead?
By The Associated Press
The first report by Detroit’s emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money — a financial meltdown that could mean employees don’t get paid, retirees lose their pensions and residents endure even deeper cuts...
Bangladesh Government Announces Plan To Reform Workers’ Rights
By Katie Rucke
On Monday the government of Bangladesh announced it had agreed to allow the country’s garment workers to form trade unions without first getting permission from factory owners.
The announcement came after an eight-story garment factory building — which housed five...
Gov’t Probe Obtains Wide Swath Of AP Phone Records
By The Associated Press
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the...
Lies About Austerity: The International Struggle For Economic Justice And Dignity
By Edward Rhymes
The verdict has been in for several years – although the U.S. has just recently been added to the mix – austerity does not work. The cuts in vital programs has not produced the surge in employment or the boom in the economy that neoliberal forces across the globe said...
‘Thirdworldizing’ America
By Stephen Lendman
Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America’s “new growth industry.” The state of today’s America is deplorable.
In his latest May 3 analysis, economist John Williams said April “employment and unemployment...
The Human Side Of Drones: Congress Fails In Oversight
By Martin Michaels
The Congressional Progressive Caucus held a recent hearing to discuss the implications of expanding the U.S. drone fleet of 7,000. Among the few critics of drone policies in Congress, members of the Progressive Caucus discussed the large number of civilians who have died...
Maine Poised To Limit Drones, Police Surveillance
By Mint Press News Desk
With 30,000 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), i.e. “drones,” projected to fly in U.S. airspace by 2020, civil liberties groups and concerned citizens have struggled to preserve privacy rights amidst a booming, multibillion dollar drone manufacturing industry.
For legislators...
Block Where Women Found A Friendly, Careful Place
By The Associated Press
The block where horror happened has many faces.
On one end, magnificent stained-glass windows rise two stories up a handsome brick church. At the other end, truck bays open into a bleak warehouse. In between are about 20 houses, some tidy, some with boards or broken glass...
