By the end of the work day I’m exhausted and dirty…Back at the Labor Ready office, I have to wait nearly 30 minutes to receive my check. The job paid $8 an hour—minimum wage. For five hours of labor, I get $37.34 after taxes. I am not paid, however, for the four hours on call, or the time spent in transit to and from the job site, or waiting to get paid. None of this meets the legal definition of wage theft, but it sure feels like it.
“Everyone Only Wants Temps,” in which our reporter signs up with this economy’s employer of last resort.
Are Your Non-Union Wages Being Kept By The Rich?
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"Preacherlike, the president draws the crowd into a call-and-response. 'Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver,' he demands, 'or less?' The crowd, sounding every bit like the protesters from Occupy Wall Street, roars back: 'MORE!' The year was 1985. The president was Ronald Wilson Reagan."
Run, don’t walk, to read Tim Dickinson’s “How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich” at Rolling Stone.
Who pays the big pensions for top-earning defense contractors? You do.
Under “corporate welfare” in the dictionary, see this:
A little loophole in most Pentagon contracts puts taxpayers on the hook for bailing out Lockheed, Raytheon, and other Beltway bandits when the stock market drains their pension funds.
Occupy the Pentagon, anyone?
Saturday is the deadline for Bank Transfer Day, the call for a mass money exodus from big banks to credit unions and small community banks. So: How long does it take? Is it inconvenient? Are big banks freaking out? Here’s everything you need to know.
