Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits
UK MPs to receive 11% pay rise amid rise in malnutrition and mental health cuts
British MPs are set to receive an 11 percent raise, taking their annual salaries up to more than $120,000 a year, effective from May 2015. The news comes alongside a simultaneous foreign aid budget increase and in the fallout of ongoing cuts.
http://rt.com/news/uk-mp-wage-increase-145/
Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits
Nesbitt is one of the 1.3 million people likely to be left with no unemployment benefits just three days after Christmas.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101243324
Retired GM workers just lost $450 million in benefits
A federal judge said General Motors is not required to pay $450 million to cover medical benefits for retirees, in a defeat for the United Auto Workers union.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101265411
Poverty Nation: How America Created a Low-wage Work Swamp
By Joan Walsh
A quarter of people who have jobs today make so little money that they also receive some form of public assistance, or welfare.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37132.htm
Budget Deal: Does the Pentagon Really Need An Extra $20 Billion?
By William D. Hartung
The Congress and the president should rethink the need to give the Pentagon over $20 billion more in fiscal 2014.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37113.htm
America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet: Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way?
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37134.htm
Poverty in America Is Mainstream
Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of the population that directly encounters poverty is exceedingly high. My research indicates that nearly 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 will experience at least one year below the official poverty line
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-america-is-mainstream/
I work 4 jobs and I am still struggling
Bingham is 37 years old and has a college degree, but like many Americans, is stuck working many hours in low wage, part-time jobs.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/12/news/economy/4-low-wage-part-time-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
High Stakes for Families Losing Jobless Benefits: 'We Could End Up Homeless'
The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.
http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Unemployment-Benefits-Jobs-Labor/2013/12/28/id/544181
I am One of the 22,000 Homeless Kids Living in New York
It s impossible to succeed unless you can escape being homeless. My grades went kaputz when I lived in the shelters.
http://www.alternet.org/im-one-22000-homeless-kids-living-new-york
40 percent of jobless youth facing mental illness symptoms with one-in-three contemplating suicide
Young people who have been unemployed in the long-term are also more than twice as likely as their peers to believe they have nothing to live for, the study said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/40-percent-of-jobless-youth-facing-mental-illness-symptoms-with-one-in-three-contemplating-suicide/
The Year of the Great Redistribution
By Robert Reich
American corporations made their big bucks mostly by reducing their costs, especially their biggest single cost: wages.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37305.htm
Deregulation, Privatization, and Cheap Labor: Obama s Corporate Plantations
By Mike Whitney
The man that helped push through the multi-trillion dollar Wall Street bailouts is not going to give one red cent to the nation s poorest and most needy people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37341.htm
No Jobs For Americans
By Paul Craig Roberts
In America the unemployment rate is a deception just like everything else.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37352.htm
Defense contractors spend millions lobbying Congress, get billions in new budget
According to lobbying information released Monday, major defense contractors spent more than $65 million influencing Congress during 2013, with much of that effort likely aimed at rolling back the sequester cuts.
http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/
From Information Clearing House
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US Budget Deal: The Good, Bad and Stupid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-0
Cruelty, Corporations, Congress, and Christmas: Unhappy Holidays for the Poor and Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-0
'Nothing to Live For': Youth Unemployment, Depression, and Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/02-1
50 Years Later, A New Hunger for National Anti-Poverty Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/08-11
How Wall Street Won the War (And What Happens Next)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/21-3
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Unemployed Americans Speak Out as Benefits Are Slashed at Christmas
John Dodds, Truthout: Unless Congress acts to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program, millions of Americans will be left with no benefits to support their families in an economy where there are still three unemployed workers for every job and the average length of unemployment is more than 37 weeks.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20722-voices-of-unemployed-americans-as-benefits-are-slashed-at-christmas
Corporations Control Our Lives
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: Corporate power has a stranglehold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture. We must regain our power by declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21021-corporations-control-our-lives
Shame on Congress for Its Criminal Neglect of the Jobless
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America s Future: The same Republicans who complained that people should be getting jobs instead of unemployment checks also boxed Congress into passing a budget that will essentially guarantee that the long-term unemployed will continue struggling to find work.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21313-shame-on-congress-for-its-criminal-neglect-of-the-jobless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inhumane
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=redistribution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deregulat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=privatiz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=contractor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=low-wage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=benefit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=jobless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=minimum+wage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=retiree
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=homeless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=malnutrition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=welfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+D.+Hartung
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Zeese
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Margaret+Flowers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joan+Walsh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Weisbrot
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Dodds
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jon+Queally
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sarah+Lazare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lauren+McCauley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Isaiah+J.+Poole
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Eskow
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British MPs are set to receive an 11 percent raise, taking their annual salaries up to more than $120,000 a year, effective from May 2015. The news comes alongside a simultaneous foreign aid budget increase and in the fallout of ongoing cuts.
http://rt.com/news/uk-mp-wage-increase-145/
Merry Christmas: Millions to lose jobless benefits
Nesbitt is one of the 1.3 million people likely to be left with no unemployment benefits just three days after Christmas.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101243324
Retired GM workers just lost $450 million in benefits
A federal judge said General Motors is not required to pay $450 million to cover medical benefits for retirees, in a defeat for the United Auto Workers union.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101265411
Poverty Nation: How America Created a Low-wage Work Swamp
By Joan Walsh
A quarter of people who have jobs today make so little money that they also receive some form of public assistance, or welfare.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37132.htm
Budget Deal: Does the Pentagon Really Need An Extra $20 Billion?
By William D. Hartung
The Congress and the president should rethink the need to give the Pentagon over $20 billion more in fiscal 2014.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37113.htm
America Is the Most Inhumane Developed Country on the Planet: Are We Going to Let It Stay That Way?
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
What would it be like if people in the U.S. knew they had these rights?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37134.htm
Poverty in America Is Mainstream
Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of the population that directly encounters poverty is exceedingly high. My research indicates that nearly 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 will experience at least one year below the official poverty line
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/poverty-in-america-is-mainstream/
I work 4 jobs and I am still struggling
Bingham is 37 years old and has a college degree, but like many Americans, is stuck working many hours in low wage, part-time jobs.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/12/news/economy/4-low-wage-part-time-jobs/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
High Stakes for Families Losing Jobless Benefits: 'We Could End Up Homeless'
The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.
http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Unemployment-Benefits-Jobs-Labor/2013/12/28/id/544181
I am One of the 22,000 Homeless Kids Living in New York
It s impossible to succeed unless you can escape being homeless. My grades went kaputz when I lived in the shelters.
http://www.alternet.org/im-one-22000-homeless-kids-living-new-york
40 percent of jobless youth facing mental illness symptoms with one-in-three contemplating suicide
Young people who have been unemployed in the long-term are also more than twice as likely as their peers to believe they have nothing to live for, the study said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/40-percent-of-jobless-youth-facing-mental-illness-symptoms-with-one-in-three-contemplating-suicide/
The Year of the Great Redistribution
By Robert Reich
American corporations made their big bucks mostly by reducing their costs, especially their biggest single cost: wages.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37305.htm
Deregulation, Privatization, and Cheap Labor: Obama s Corporate Plantations
By Mike Whitney
The man that helped push through the multi-trillion dollar Wall Street bailouts is not going to give one red cent to the nation s poorest and most needy people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37341.htm
No Jobs For Americans
By Paul Craig Roberts
In America the unemployment rate is a deception just like everything else.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37352.htm
Defense contractors spend millions lobbying Congress, get billions in new budget
According to lobbying information released Monday, major defense contractors spent more than $65 million influencing Congress during 2013, with much of that effort likely aimed at rolling back the sequester cuts.
http://watchdog.org/124909/defense-spending/
From Information Clearing House
--------
US Budget Deal: The Good, Bad and Stupid
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/19-0
Cruelty, Corporations, Congress, and Christmas: Unhappy Holidays for the Poor and Unemployed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/24-0
'Nothing to Live For': Youth Unemployment, Depression, and Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/02-1
50 Years Later, A New Hunger for National Anti-Poverty Agenda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/08-11
How Wall Street Won the War (And What Happens Next)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/21-3
--------
Unemployed Americans Speak Out as Benefits Are Slashed at Christmas
John Dodds, Truthout: Unless Congress acts to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program, millions of Americans will be left with no benefits to support their families in an economy where there are still three unemployed workers for every job and the average length of unemployment is more than 37 weeks.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20722-voices-of-unemployed-americans-as-benefits-are-slashed-at-christmas
Corporations Control Our Lives
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: Corporate power has a stranglehold on the entire American existence, and it has turned our entire lives into a profit-making venture. We must regain our power by declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21021-corporations-control-our-lives
Shame on Congress for Its Criminal Neglect of the Jobless
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America s Future: The same Republicans who complained that people should be getting jobs instead of unemployment checks also boxed Congress into passing a budget that will essentially guarantee that the long-term unemployed will continue struggling to find work.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21313-shame-on-congress-for-its-criminal-neglect-of-the-jobless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=US+Congress
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=inhumane
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=redistribution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deregulat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bailout
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=privatiz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=contractor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=low-wage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=benefit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=jobless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=minimum+wage
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=retiree
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=homeless
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=malnutrition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=welfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+D.+Hartung
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kevin+Zeese
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Margaret+Flowers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Joan+Walsh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Weisbrot
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Dodds
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jon+Queally
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sarah+Lazare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thom+Hartmann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lauren+McCauley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Whitney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Isaiah+J.+Poole
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Richard+Eskow
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