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Dems' War FOR Women

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pay, Pay Equity, War for Women, Harry Reid, War on Women, Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Healthcare, Equality, Women's Rights, Equality for Women, Elections 2012, Politics News

If Republicans want to stop being tarred and feathered by the charge that they wage these wars against women, they should stop fighting them, and start supporting pay equity for women and stop attacking healthcare programs vital for women, their daughters, their sons and their babies.

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Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private Sector Pay Has Been Understated

Dean Baker | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Pensions, Public Employees, Bubble, Income Inequality, Stock Market, Paycheck, Pay, Salary, Business News

The cost to taxpayers of public employees' compensation packages are on average no greater than the cost to private sector employees. The big difference is that public employees can expect a considerably more secure retirement.

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WATCH: Ex-Banker Takes Huge Pay Cut To Open Butcher Shop

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Restaurant Industry, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Butcher, Pay, Craft Brews, Bakery, Salary, Employment, Banker, Pay Cut, Greg Smith, Chocolatiers, Business News

Ex-banker Terry Walsh isn't a victim of the financial crisis, so why did he leave his high-paying job to open a butcher shop? "This is my dream, an...

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Beltway Influencers Still Mad Men

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Women, Gender Gap, Income Gap, Pay, Male, Women CEOs, Salary, Men, Paycheck, Female, Inequality, Income, Money News

If the worst-kept secret on Capitol Hill is that top lobbying groups actually control the show, then the best-kept secret is that the whizzes behind t...

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Cash Is Still The Most Popular Way to Pay for Most Americans: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Debt, Payments, Pay, Dodd-Frank, Money, Durbin Amendment, Green-Money-Saving-Tips, Hard Currency, Atm, Credit Cards, Wallet, Debit Cards, Cash, Business News

When it's time to pay for small, everyday items, cash is still king. More than three-quarters, or 79 percent, of consumers said they made a cash p...

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Factory Worker Lights Himself On Fire To Protest Working Conditions At Hyundai Plant

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Pay, Labornotes, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Mass Suicide, Video, Labor, Self Immolation, Daily Show, Apple, South Korea, Hyundai, Work Conditions, Protest, Foxconn, This American Life, Business News

The auto industry saw a largely strong year in 2011 with U.S. sales rising 10 percent, but a recent incident at a Hyundai plant in South Korea may rai...

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N.Y. Building Cleaners Poised to Strike

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: SEIU 32BJ, Strike, Pay, Low-Wage Workers, Empire State Building, Wages, Seiu, Rockefeller Center, Organized Labor, Time Warner Building, New York, Business News

Workers who clean more than 1,500 buildings in New York -- including iconic facilities such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the T...

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10 Major Cities Where Wages Are Rising Most

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Boston, payscale.com, Video, Recovery, Pay, Great Recession, Wages, Compensation, u.s. Census Bureau, Income, Productivity, Business News

There are some major cities where pay appears to be growing, but not that quickly -- and when you take inflation into account it might not be growing ...

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Why You Need A Mentor At Work -- And How To Find One

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Negotiation, Sponsors, Women, Mentors, Pay, Work, Mentoring, Salary, Employment, Jobs, Good News, Women News

During her first job out of college, Ally Sperber never went in search of a mentor. Instead, Mary Ellen, one of the managing partners in the financial...

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Almost All Americans Aren't Expecting A Raise This Year

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Jobs Crisis, Pay, Jobless Recovery, Income Inequality, Economy, Jobless Crisis, Jobs, Economic Inequality, Income Rates, Productivity, Business News

As the economic gloom settles in, American workers seem to be coming around to the conclusion that they may be facing a permanent midnight. A new s...

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Stagnant Middle Class Feeling Pressure Of Rising Tuition Costs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Education, Pay, Student Financial Aid, Income Inequality, College Education, Cnn Money, finaid.org, Wages, Jobs, College Tuition, Economic Inequality, Income Rates, Productivity, Business News

The cost of a college education is rising, but the wages that pay for them aren't. Over the last 20 years, while pay for the average American work...

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Do College Professors Earn Their Keep?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Professor, Texas, Ranking, Pay, Spreadsheet, Faculty, Data, Austin, Ut, Salary, Texas a&M, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Frank Ashley, William Powers, Rick Perry, Video, College News

For years, state legislators, parents, and even his own boss had been hectoring Frank Ashley, the vice chancellor of academic affairs for the Texas A&...

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Fannie, Freddie Heads Received Large Pay Without Justification, Report Finds

Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Fannie Me Pay, Freddie Mac, Pay, Government Pay, Mortgage Firms, Fannie Mae, Compensation, Fhfa, Freddie Mac Pay, Business News

The heads of bailed-out mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) were paid fat salaries without proper written proc...

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White House Report on Women Has Crappy News (VIDEO)

Erin Gibson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Women's History Month, White House Report on Women, Erin Gibson, Career, Pay, Mel Gibson, Erin, Report, International Women's Day, Comedy News

For 40 years women thought they were getting paid less than men, but short of digging pay stubs out of garbage cans, didn't really have hard evidence. Until now.

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Wall Street Pay 'Vaults to Record Altitude'

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Greed, Banks, Pay, Wall Street, Jobs, Leveraged Buyouts, Corporate Greed, Financial Crisis, Business News

Sometimes, I wonder whether we all live in a grand farce. But, actually, it's a real-life story about a robbery of the people that continues every d...

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The F Word: The Violence of the Broken Economy

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Pay, Wages, Retirement, Economy, Wage, Tucson, Recession, Jobs, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Tax Rate, Grit Tv, Rick Hayduk, Labor, Unemployment, Laura Flanders, Loughner, Grittv, New York Times, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Unions, American Dream, Politics News

A lot of people have talked this week about violent political rhetoric bringing the U.S. to a fever pitch, but there's something else keeping people o...

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Don't Rob From IRA to Pay Paul

Natalie Pace | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Pay, Health Savings Account, Divorce, Collection, Budget, Employment, Asset, Expense, Natalie Pace, Nest Egg, Insurance, NataliePace.Com, Job, Bank, Foreclosure, Credit Card, Retire, Real Estate, Ira, Divorce News

Dear Natalie, I recently divorced and without the extra income of my spouse, I'm drowning in credit card debt.

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Bottoming Out Financially, Rocking Out Proactively

Justin Cox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Education, Pay, College, Loans, Strummingawaymyloans, Music, Justin Cox, College News

In hopes of making my loan payments, I play guitar in the subway.

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Senate: Women are worth less

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Women's Rights, Women, Illinois Senate Race, Discrimination, Pay, Business News

It's no surprise a pay equity bill got voted down yesterday. Women wanting equal pay is now seen as just an obsession, like needing a new pair of sti...

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Is Marriage a Barbarian-Adoption Program?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Married men are less generous with their friends after marrying. How, does this qualify as acting "more civilized," as the Marriage Mafia claim?

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"Generation D" for Diminishing Paycheck

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raises, Careers, Jobs, Fair Wages, Pay, Wages, Recession, Business News

Bosses say they don't have the money to pay you more, but how much of what has happened to the paychecks of American workers has to do with our acceptance of diminishing returns?

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Women Sue Bank of America: Three Female Employees Allege Discrimination, 'Second Class' Status

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Class Citizens, Salaries, Women, Court, Women's Rights, Pay, Pay Discrimination, Opportunity, Bank of America, Men, Compensation, Bofa, Lawsuit, Gender, Merrill Lynch, Workplace, Male Employees, Lunches, Expense Accounts, Wall Street, Inequality, Business News

NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. and Merrill Lynch have made female employees "second-class citizens" by purposely giving their male counterpart...

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Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Workforce, Social Security, Singled Out, Pay, Divorce, Children, Matrimania, A Woman?S Nation, Gloria Steinem, Nonfamily Households, Media, Childless Women, Business, Ideology, Consciousness-Raising, Friendship, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Politics, Compulsory Mothering, Singlism, Discrimination, Breadwinners, Health Care, Couples, Family, Women?S Media Center, Taxes, Connection, Single-Person Households, Wives, Compulsory Marriage, Money, Women?S Movement, Suze Orman, Shriver Report, Singles, Maria Shriver, Time Magazine, Mothers, Gender, Education, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Workplace, Unmarried America, John Podesta, Adrienne Rich, Healthy Living News

I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

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Private College Salaries Of More Than $1 Million Paid To 23 Presidents

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David J. Sargent, Salaries, Tuition Increases, Pay, Tuition, College President, Renssealear Polytechnic Institute, University President, Private Universities, University of Tulsa, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Ann Jackson, Steadman Upham, Student Loans, Students, Suffolk University, David Sargent, President, Presidents, Costs, University, College, Salary, Chronicle of Higher Education, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Executive Pay, Home News

The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it's likely more college leaders...

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Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pay, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economy, Wages, Jobless, Jobs, Laid Off, Recession, Gender, Layoffs, Gender Equality, Unemployment, Inflation, Work, Salary, Business News

The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

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