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1 The Best Banks For Small Business 21
2 JPMorgan Chase: Break Up The Big Banks Now. Here’s How. 20
3 Workers of the World Unite — with Shareholders 9
4 IMF tells Britain: Do more to drive growth 12
5 How Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits May Trim Jobless Rate 21
6 How To Fix the Deficit 14
7 Mitt Romney praises Meg Whitman as she prepares to lay off 30,000 workers 31
8 We Had Money In The Federal Budget For ... What? 16
9 Preying on the Poor 27
10 These High-Paying Jobs Don't Require A College Degree 33
11 The Austerity Trap and the Jobs Deficit 15
12 Thousands Apply For Jobs Building Asteroid-Mining Robots 22
13 U.S. housing, industrial data point to steady growth 8
14 Congress Disputes Impact Of Hiring Discrimination Against Older Workers 32
15 Over 55 and jobless, Americans face tough hunt 40
16 Cynthia Montgomery: The Myth of the Super-Manager 29
17 The Bain Way: Take millions in job creation tax subsidies, then turn around and lay off hundreds 40
18 In a real free market, you shouldn't make money by failing 8
19 More than 230,000 lose unemployment benefits in eight states due to cuts 70
20 Five Facts That Put America to Shame 28
21 Finally! 2012 College Grads Enter Improving Job Market 27
22 Europe Rejects Austerity. Will the U.S.? 33
23 Minimum Wage Hike Takes Big Step Closer To Missouri Ballot 43
24 The Importance of Being Romney 33
25 Private-sector jobs grew far more under Democratic than Republican presidents, 1961-2012 3
26 Mitt Romney says spending cuts will shrink economy and destroy jobs ... so why does he support them? 34
27 Austerity now dirty word in Europe, but what next? 33
28 Sanjay Sanghoee: Romney's 'Business Model' Is Bad for America 62
29 Mitt Romney is a 'businessman' like the Hamburglar is a rancher 39
30 California's Long-Term Unemployed Brace For Sudden End Of Benefits 62

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Minimum Wage

Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.

And why does Germany's Manufacturers do so well?

BLS Jobless Numbers

  • 12.5 million - unemployed,
  • 14.5%(U6) - out of work,
  • 5.1 million (41%) 6 months or longer,
  • 7.9 million "involuntary" partime workers,
  • Over 4 million for a year, (WSJ)
  • 2.0  million over 99 weeks, the 99ers!
  • 4.7 jobless for every job. EPI
  • 91,000 unemployed become 99ers every week.
~ U.S. April 2012 -Bureau Labor Statistics

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