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Goldberg: It's 'I told you so' on Obamacare
"What we've learned through the course of this program is that this is really not a sensible way for the healthcare system to be run." That was Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Consumer Information and...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), The New York Times, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Employment
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In L.A.'s Council District 9 race, the money flows to Curren Price
It's easy to understand why special interests are pouring dollars into the mayor's race in Los Angeles -- the mayor is the most powerful official in the second-largest city in America. What's less intuitive is why they're spending so much in the race...
Tags: Mike Davis, Elections, Politics, Gil Cedillo, Local Elections
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REPORT: IOSHA inspections, fines are down
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The state agency charged with keeping Indiana workplaces safe inspects fewer than a third of the businesses it did in the 1980s, issues fines for serious violations that average less than half the national rate and issued...Tags: Fines, Punishment, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
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Labor, business leaders reach agreement on outline of immigration plan
Key business and labor leaders said Thursday that they have hammered out the broad outline of a compromise on one of the hardest issues in reforming the nation's immigration system -- how to handle future needs for foreign workers in the U.S. Although...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Politics, Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice
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Analysis: Minimum wage plan a new test for Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — If anything illustrated President Barack Obama's new sense of self-confidence, it was his State of the Union call for an increase in the national minimum wage. For much of the past two years, the president and his aides have...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate, White House, CEO Pay
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Taking a Look at Union Posters at Tunxis Community College
The 99% Resist Gallery exhibit runs through Feb. 26 at the Barnes-Franklin Gallery at Tunxis Community College, Farmington. tunxis.edu Pack rats of the world, unite! Follow the example of Stephen Lewis, and your poster collection could be on...
Tags: Travel, State Parks, Career and Workplace, Georgetown, Occupy Wall Street
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If the GOP is doomed, why does it keep winning everything but the presidency?
The Republicans are doomed. Conservatism is over. President Obama is conducting a mop-up operation at this point. That's the basic consensus in places like New York City, Washington, D.C., and other citadels of blue America. And let's be fair,...
Tags: New York City, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Chicago Mayor, Republican Party
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'Wage theft' prevails in post-recession economy
Behind the counter at a convenience store in Princess Anne, Elvira Orellana worked 72 hours a week, making sandwiches, cleaning the kitchen and ordering the ingredients to prepare oxtail, curry chicken and cheese steaks. Her employer paid her $648 a week...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Theft, John F. Kennedy, Economy, Business and Finance, Law Enforcement
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Brenda J. Clayburn, City Union of Baltimore president, dies
Brenda J. Clayburn, a founder and later president of the City Union of Baltimore who was also a longtime city Police Department supervisor, died Sunday of undetermined causes at her Northwest Baltimore home. She was 63. "She had recently been sick, and...
Tags: Baltimore City Community College, Work Relations, Substance Abuse, Career and Workplace, Bon Secours
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Group urges federal benefits protections, decries tax breaks outside Schiff's Burbank office
Roughly a dozen activists and union members gathered outside the Burbank office of Rep. Adam Schiff’s Wednesday, urging the congressman to protect federal health insurance programs, while blasting what they called the nation's “rigged tax...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Social Security, Insurance, Medicare, Government Health Care
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Leave entitlements alone
The most serious economic challenge facing America is the continuing jobs crisis – not the deficit or the national debt. If House Republicans plan to use the fiscal cliff showdown to hold working people, seniors and the disadvantaged hostage with...Tags: Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff, Medicaid, Medicare, Government Health Care
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Campaign rules for federal employees get an update
Even as Congress and the White House appeared to be at a standoff over the fiscal cliff last month, lawmakers and the president were able to agree on at least one thing: an update of the Hatch Act.
The 1939 law prohibits federal employees and certain...Tags: The New York Times, Fiscal Cliff, Public Officials, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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