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2008 BEST EMPLOYERS FOR WORKERS OVER "50"
Business  (tags: US, companies, senior citizens, over 50, workforce, employers, employees, skilled workers, age descrimination )

ON VACATI
- 417 days ago - aarp.org
This annual recognition program honors companies and organizations who value the 50+ workforce. These companies know that one way to stay competitive is to make their jobs more attractive to qualified and skilled workers, regardless of age.
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Tomato-Pickers Feeling Spied On - Campaign of Dirty Tricks Tied to Burger King
Business  (tags: US, Florida, Burger King, tomato pickers, CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Student/Farmworker Alliance )

Alba
- 588 days ago - news-press.com
Who'd spy on a couple of nonprofit human rights groups? Who'd hire professional infiltrator to sit in on their planning sessions? Who'd attack them on Web for their efforts to improve lives of workers who pick produce for world's largest fast food chains?
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Pay Rent and Eat Too? Low Costs At The Supermarket Come At A Price, But They're Rising Despite The Risks
Business  (tags: US, industrial food system, agrichemicals, fast food chains, cheaper "distillers grains, " replacing corn, E. coli 0157 virus, "downer cows, poverty wages, >12M US families "food insecure, " Community Food Projects, risk cuts )

Alba
- 627 days ago - grist.org
Cheap, unhealthy food plays key role in economic system, sustaining low-income service workforce in an era of falling wages. Now, even as prices rise for corn & soy - key inputs in the industrial-food system - the Burger King ad may herald the shape of t
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Video: Reporters Blow Whistle on Monsanto Threats To FOX News Re Hormone Report Never Aired   video
Business  (tags: US, Florida, Fox TV, Monsanto, BGH, milk, secrecy, conspiracy, Canadian hearings )

Alba
- 627 days ago - youtube.com
Husband-&-wife investigative team join wi Florida's top consumer groups to reveal BGH story; provide details of their suit charging Fox TV, threatened by Monsanto, with violating whistleblower act. Canadian & UK public got different version than US on BGH
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Does Labor Need More Clout? The Economic Problem & Union-Busting at 14-Hospital Chain Owned/Run By Nuns of St. Joseph of Orange
Business  (tags: US, California, union-busting, nuns, St Joseph's Health System, SJHS, Robert B. Reich, author, professor of public policy, UC Berkeley, former US Secretary of Labor, US economy, lower 'n middle-income workers, lack buying power )

Alba
- 630 days ago - sfgate.com
50 yrs ago, most employers obeyed the law & allowed workers to organize. Today, even employers who should know better are fighting unions. Huge company St.Joseph'sHealthSystem's refused to negotiate with (21,000) employees since 2004. Struggle goes on...
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US Prison Beckons Trio of Disgraced British Bankers Who Got Cosy With Enron
Business  (tags: US, UK, Houston, federal courthouse, Enron, fraud, British bankers, The NatWest Three, disgraced, convicted, jail sentences )

Alba
- 641 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Known as the NatWest 3, trio to be sentenced to lengthy jail stretches by US judge for stealing $7.3m in complex Enron-related fraud that sparked a row over UK extradition policy.Their dealings with Enron went far deeper than a single transaction
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Oil Prices Drop as US Stockpiles Rise
Business  (tags: Oil, prices, drop, bushadministration, US, stockpiles rise, government, OPEC, congress, americans, bush, politics, usa, ethics )

TW
- 678 days ago - afp.google.com
Oil prices receded Wednesday in reaction to rising US crude reserves and after US President George W. Bush called on OPEC members to hike output, traders said. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency kept its 2008 forecast for oil demand unchanged d
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Holiday Sales Miss Forecasts With Discounts in Demand (Update3)
Business  (tags: us, consumers, money, Miss Forecasts )

Kemsa
- 727 days ago - bloomberg.com
U.S. retailers, offering holiday discounts of 50 percent or more this week, may see profits erode even as customers flock to stores.
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US Recession Fears Grow as Bank Losses Mount
Business  (tags: us, economy, recession, government, money, economics, consumers, business )

Kemsa
- 735 days ago - wsws.org
The crisis in US housing and credit markets is taking a growing toll on major banks and financial institutions in the US and around the world, and increasingly affecting other sectors of the economy.
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Auto Sales Could Hit 15-Year Low
Business  (tags: automotive, americans, business, auto, cars, consumers, economy, economics, environment, marketing, Mortgages, us, usa, unethical, technology, globalwarming )

Nicholas
- 736 days ago - reuters.com
Three top investors in the automotive industry painted a grim picture on Sunday for the sector in 2008, with one executive predicting a possible slump in U.S. sales to levels not seen in 15 years.
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Sorting Out the Sub-Prime Problem
Business  (tags: economy, americans, consumers, business, economics, Mortgages, Stocks, us, usa, market, finance, dishonesty, government )

Nicholas
- 737 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
On 31 August, President George W Bush appeared in the White House Rose Garden to urge action to deal with a serious crisis in the US economy.
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Coin Collection Sells for $30 Million
Business  (tags: business, money, us, investors )

Cathryne
- 737 days ago - news.yahoo.com
An anonymous buyer has paid more than $30 million for a collection of rare U.S. prototype coins, some from the 1700s, that never went into circulation, according to the dealer that brokered the deal. The collection consists of about 1,000 coins that
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OPEC's Dollar Concerns Overshadow Environmental Push
Business  (tags: us, money, oil, business, energy, markets )


- 737 days ago - bloomberg.com
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The falling U.S. dollar's effect on oil revenues overshadowed Saudi Arabia's promises to fight global warming at this weekend's OPEC summit in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, considering a revaluation of the riyal against the dollar, had to
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Yahoo Isn't the Only Villain
Business  (tags: China, US, spying, big business, unethical, money, internet, government, technology, computer, cyber-security )

Holly
- 747 days ago - latimes.com
The Internet giant is just one of many tech firms propping up China's totalitarian ways.
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Oil Hits Another Record Above $97 - Suicide Bomber Helped, Too!
Business  (tags: oil, US, record oil prices, suicide bombers, dwindling supplies )

ON VACATI
- 749 days ago - money.cnn.com
U.S. light crude for December delivery gained $2.72 to settle at $96.70 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, surpassing the previous closing high of $95.93 set Friday. Crude hit an intraday high of $97.07,
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