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• Kyodo: numerical figures on how many NJ took “Nikkei Repatriation Bribe”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 135
  After the GOJ instituted the "Nikkei Repatriation Bribe" last April 1, bribing people with Japanese blood (only) to give up their visas, pension, and whatever contributions they made to Japan for a paltry lump-sum, "get out of our country and be somebody elses problem" exchange, we have some possible figures coming ...
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• TNR on Football

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 152
  Whats the meaning of football in American life? Over the years, TNR has not been silent on the subject. Read our best archived pieces on the game: " The Moral Equivalent to Football " by Wilcomb E. Washburn. July 23, 1977. Why football reflects the true--not the ideal--nature of the American character. " Goodbye ...
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• This country has a glut of underemployed and needs to address labor-dumping.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  People did not all-of-a-sudden become “cash-poor”, they lost good-paying jobs. Many companies have brought in “cheap skilled labor” and replaced people. Others have just outsourced jobs to other countries. In either case, a good-paying job was lost. Someone making $80K - $130K can well afford a house and an ...
  4 hours ago

• Bissell Subcontracts Lousy Labor Practices

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Should companies like Bissell be allowed to deny any wrong doing because theyve subcontracted the labor force that works in a factory they own? Is it really worth someone elses safety and rights to make cheaper steam cleaners and vacuums?
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• Navigating the Jobs Crisis: What Workers Know about Recovery

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 142
  In the wake of the highest unemployment rate in 25 years, the Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. On this Thanksgiving Day, Alice O’Connor reminds us that a job is not just ...
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• ALPA, ILWU Pitch in with Aid for Pacific Disaster Victims

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
      These ILWU members volunteered their time and labor to load 15 containers of supplies for tsunami victims.         Members of the Air Line Pilots ( ALPA ) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ) didn’t wait until Thanksgiving or some other holiday to show their ...
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• The Great Depression as a Recalculation, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 695
  In an interview, Bruce Greenwald says , Basically, in the Depression a huge sector of the economy that everyone had always regarded as central, died. And it dies for an almost virtuous reason. That sector of course is agriculture. Because productivity in agriculture had been growing faster than demand, we ...
  5 hours ago

• Inhumanity of Minimum Wage Law

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 115
  “ Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” - Milton Friedman One may wonder what the great economist Milton Friedman was thinking while he uttered those words. May be he was thinking of the ill-effects of price controls and how does price control causes ...
  10 hours ago

• BUMPS – The Role Of A Father During Labor

  
  Today from The OBE Community — Authority: 430
  Editor’s Note: Happy Thursday! This morning we have Deepa on site discussing the function a father has (or doesn’t have) during child birth. Here she is:Do you know who Dr. Michel Odent... This is a summary of the daily post at Ourbigearth.com. Click on the headline to read the whole story.
  10 hours ago

• Indiana Intermittent FMLA

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  One of the biggest concerns among employees in Indiana and elsewhere in the U.S. is the federally-sanctioned right of employees to take unscheduled, intermittent leave under FMLA. The Family and Medical Leave Act or FMLA allows this kind of leave, and the U.S. Department of Labor has addressed the issue. A report ...
  10 hours ago

• Linksgiving: Nota Bene #2009-42

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  Welcome to my home. Have a seat at the table and prepare yourself for a mighty holiday feast. Enjoy! … First off, we need to say grace … Let’s watch the parade on TV while we eat … Hmm, switch it to football … What would you like to drink? Wine ? … Beer ? … Pop ? … Punch ? … Milk ? … ...
  11 hours ago

• Management Prerogatives: It’s Effects to Empoloyee’s Security of Tenure

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  Image via Wikipedia The advent of Global recession led to a deluge of labor problems among affected counties, primarily, the United States of America and other countries in Europe as well. Among major capitalist countries, tens of thousands of companies shut downed to avert more business reversals while some ...
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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch whiffs in its coverage of arrests in Gladney attack

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  In September I was in the audience at the Tea Party Express rally in Indiana when Kenneth Gladney, who was selling Gadsden flags at a town hall held by Sen. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) in suburban St. Louis, told us of his being attacked by SEIU thugs. Heres the raw video of the assault. Thats Gladney on the right, the ...
  12 hours ago

• When to File for Emotional Abuse

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 157
  Charles Flaxman is a personal injury lawyer from Hollywood, Florida. In his 37 years of experience serving the Hollywood area in personal injury cases, Flaxman has seen the entire gamut of case types: From the banal and ordinary to the truly bizarre, he has handled nearly every form and category of case. Though ...
  15 hours ago

• Obama’s Anti-Capitalist Policies Are Anti-Job and Therefore Anti-Recovery

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Amidst polls showing flagging public support, the Obama Administration has decided to address the one poll, among all others, that will determine Obama’s political future: the unemployment rate.  As Scott Rasmussen points out, the unemployment rate has a lot to say in deciding a President’s popularity rating and ...
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• ILRF Report: Gymboree = Child Labor

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Earlier today, I mocked the American Family Association for its call this year to boycott companies that don’t use the word “Christmas” enough in their advertising. Pardon me for being blunt, but a matter like that is utterly trivial compared to something like forced child labor . Do you have a second ...
  17 hours ago

• A Good Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Number... Isnt It?Report

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 720
  The Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports: ETA Press Release: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report : In the week ending Nov. 21, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 466,000, a decrease of 35,000 from the previous weeks revised figure of 501,000. The 4-week moving average was 496,500, ...
  17 hours ago

• Microsoft Admits Zero-Day Vulnerability in IE 6 and 7

  
  Windows 2008 Security — Authority: 156
  What’s more, it’s been identified as a zero-day vulnerability to boot, which means patches on the security hole could prove labor-intensive on the software giant’s part. Read more: Microsoft Admits Zero-Day Vulnerability in IE 6 and 7
  18 hours ago

• Dems health care reform: Taxes raised immediately, benefits, if any, to come later

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  McClatchy : WASHINGTON — Americans could pay billions of dollars more in new taxes for a few years before theyre likely to see significant change in the nations health care system under legislation that Congress is considering. Some analysts said thats not necessarily bad. Delaying major health care changes until ...
  18 hours ago

• Charges Filed in Kenneth Gladney Beating Case

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 441
  Two and a half months after 39-year-old Kenneth Gladney (right) was beaten in St. Louis by SEIU thugs outside Bernard Middle School, charges have finally been filed against six individuals, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The charges come 15 days after I asked the question, Why No Charges in ...
  19 hours ago

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