Economy and Business
The Corporate Takeover of the 2012 Presidential Election
The unregulated energy hucksters behind the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago created an array of dummy financial funds to evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, they dubbed these phony funds names like Chewco and JEDI.
Poverty News
It’s Time to Study Social Security’s Origins
After a bubble economy burst, the stock market collapsed. Main street businesses began to fold and jobs soon vanished. Millions of job seekers remained unemployed as the months turned into years. Both government and personal debt soared. The best economic minds in America came together to find solutions and decided we needed a new program: Social Security.
Unemployed for Life?
It could well be a chapter straight out of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
A Perry Tale about the Prince of Privilege
In this one, Prince Rick is trying to make it to the big White House in Washington. It’s a strange quest, because he calls the capital city “a seedy place,” and he tells the commoners in the land that he hates — nay, deeply loathes — the very government that he wants to head.
Fired for Organizing a Union
Last month Target fired Tashawna Green — but not for being bad at her job. They fired her, she says, for trying to make her job better. Green, a 21-year-old single mom, was the most public supporter of a campaign to unionize the workers at her Long Island, New York store. Before an unsuccessful union vote there, she told The New York Times and other media outlets about the challenge of supporting her daughter on $8 an hour and insufficient hours. Her photo appeared in several newspapers.
So You Think You Can be President?
In a country with a functional political system Rick Perry’s presidential candidacy would be laughed out of the room.
CEOs Rewarded for Corporate Tax Dodging
For an elite group of American CEOs, sacrifice is for chumps.
Apple’s Steve Jobs: Not Quite Henry Ford
Steve Jobs has the rare privilege of attending his own funeral. Who among us has not wanted to do that — to see who’s there, who’s not; who’s crying and who seems perfectly calm, even bored?
High-Wire CEO
