UPDATE: The Woman Fired In Florida For Being A Democrat
Earlier this week, with your help, we started a Twitter/Facebook/Blog campaign to express outrage over Marriott Vacation's Worldwide's decision to fire a long-term employee for being a Democrat. Here’s a refresher and a report on the latest developments.
Massachusetts Governor Trying To Eliminate Tech Industry Noncompetes
Noncompete clauses are very common in the tech industry and the governor of Massachusetts is now pushing to end them.
Study: Racial Wealth Gap Widening
Racial inequality is alive and well. According to a new study, the wealth gap between African-American and white families has tripled in the past quarter century.
Raising The Minimum Wage And The Forces Opposed To It
If anyone needs a break from the typical fare we're treated to on the bobblehead shows on Sundays, check out some of Chris Hayes show from this Saturday. It's rare that this kind of in depth and comprehensive discussion happens, even rarer where
Fox SOTU Preview: Forget The Jobs, Where Are The Cuts?
The Fox & Friends hosts were so busy obsessing over cuts to "entitlements" and carping about spending that they neatly avoided talking about helping the middle class and boosting employment.
Too Sexy For Work? You Could Get Fired For That...Legally
Damn, it looks like there are several of us that should expect pink slips from Amato....
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that employers in the state can legally fire workers they find too attractive.
In a unanimous decision, the
Unemployment Rate Falls To 7.8 Percent, 44-Month Low
The U.S. added 114,000 jobs in September, causing the unemployment rate to slip to 7.8 percent—a figure not seen since January 2009, when President Obama first took office. There were other unexpected nuggets of good news, too: numbers for
Chris Wallace Pushes Fallacy That Public Sector Workers Are Overpaid
For anyone that did not read Jon Perr's post here from back in 2010, I'll just refer our readers back there for a detailed analysis of why what Chris Wallace was repeating here on Fox News Sunday about public sector workers being overpaid is
Demanding Justice For 'The Milwaukee 12'
In December of last year, twelve union janitors were fired and replaced with nonunion janitors who make poverty wages and receive no affordable benefits. This greedy decision by Wangard Partners is bad for Milwaukee's economy. This is why
LIVE: Occupy Greensboro Joins Occupy Raleigh To Reclaim An Evicted Family’s Foreclosed Home
About 60 Occupiers are risking arrest to help keep a family in a home that is being taken by an unjust foreclosure. Unconfirmed reports that a SWAT team has been called to the site. Livestream is up!
