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SIGN OF THE TIMES--More Members of Middle Class File for Bankruptcy
Business  (tags: consumers, foreclosures, BANKRUPTCIES, CHAPTER 7, society, humans, economy, americans, money, usa )

Cal
- 14 hours ago - usatoday.com
A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are coll
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Take Action- Murdoch: Stop Race-Baiting
Business  (tags: petition, news, consumers, money, humans, society, ethics )

Daphna
- 7 days ago - civic.moveon.org
Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX and the News Corporation empire, just said Glenn Beck "was right" when he called President Obama "racist." This is a rare moment of candor from Murdoch, one of the most powerful media barons in the world.
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Meet Robyn Nietert of the Women's Microfinance Initiative: Building Businesses, and Lives, One Loan At a Time
Business  (tags: business, debt, Entrepreneurs, ethics, economy, finance, humans, investments, labor, money, society, world )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
The Women's Microfinance Initiative (WMI) started as a casual discussion between two women in Bethesda, Maryland. Robyn Nietert and Betsy Gordon wanted to help people in an impoverished community, and microfinance seemed a more sustainable and empowering
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Where's the Beef? In Land of Cowboys, Pig Thrives
Business  (tags: americans, consumers, corporate, economy, ethics, farming, marketing, money, society, humans )

Cowboss
- 19 days ago - google.com
The president of the National Pork Producers Council -- the person who represents the people who represent the nation's pigs -- appeared recently before Congress to talk about sales in the swine flu era. He wasn't happy. "Things look bleak going forward,
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Child Labor | The High Cost of Cotton
Business  (tags: world, society, labor, humans, money, investors, ethics, farming, economy, consumers, business )

Daphna
- 20 days ago - gliving.com
Just in case you thought it was okay to buy non-organic cotton, here's a wakeup call: the workers sowing, picking, weeding, hoeing, cross-pollinating and carrying the heavy bundles of cotton are often... children. And I'm not talking about kids working th
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The Brower Youth Awards 2009: The Cure for Cynicism (Video)
Business  (tags: society, humans, goodnews, SustainableDevelopment, marketing, investing, environment, business, consumers, economy, money )

Daphna
- 28 days ago - treehugger.com
I was looking at an (anonymous) TreeHugger's skype profile the other day, which read "I'd be more optimistic if more people worried." It's easy to feel like that. With climate change, war, famine and resource depletion, it's sometimes scary how oblivious
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Dude, Where's My Bailout?
Business  (tags: consumers, foreclosures, debt, economy, humans, news, society, business )

Cal
- 29 days ago - motherjones.com
With foreclosures at a record high and the national unemployment rate at 9.8 percent, I went to talk with some of the people still waiting for their recovery, their bailout, at a massive homeowner relief event in the San Francisco Bay Are
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Latest Bank Fee Is for Paying Off Credit Card on Time Every Month
Business  (tags: consumers, banks big bank greed, dishonesty, ethics, humans, americans, economy, money, news, usa )

Cal
- 31 days ago - usatoday.com
Credit card issuers are looking for ways to raise income before the new rules take effect in February. During the first quarter, 27% of credit card offers included annual fees, up from 18% a year earlier, according to Synovate Mail Monitor, a credit card
9 comments
Alaska Loses Jobs for Fifth Straight Month
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, corporate, debt, economy, environment, ethics, finance, government, humans, labor, marketing, money, news, oil, politics, society, technology, usa )

Wolfweeps
- 32 days ago - newsminer.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska job market continues to struggle, as the state suffered its fifth straight month of job losses in September and the unemployment rate rose to 8.4 percent.The seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose from 8.1 percent in August
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ConocoPhillips Will Cut Assets Worldwide..Alaska Items Might Be Chopped
Business  (tags: conservation, destruction, ecosystems, energy, environment, globalwarming, goodnews, government, greenhousegases, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, pollution, protection, science, Sustainabililty, water, suffering, wildlife, world, abuse, ameri )

Wolfweeps
- 36 days ago - newsminer.com
FAIRBANKS -- ConocoPhillips said last week that the oil giant will sell $10 billion of assets and lower capital spending in 2010 in an effort to strengthen its financial position.Charlie Rowton, a spokesman for the Houston-based company, said no decisions
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Action Alert: Stop Massive World Bank (IFC) Supported Expansion of Pacific Industrial Tuna Fish Harvest
Business  (tags: exploitation, habitatdestruction, overfishing, government, environment, humans, corruption, business, news, politics, society )

Cal
- 36 days ago - ecoearth.info
Over-fishing comes to Madang, Papua New Guinea, as local peoples prepare to resist 10 tuna canneries. Support indigenous South Pacific coastal peoples as they are physically protesting right now!
5 comments
Ultra-Rich Want Their Children to Know the Ropes
Business  (tags: finance, humans, money, news, economy, consumers, business )

Cal
- 39 days ago - reuters.com
The ultra-rich are taking a more hands-on approach to investing and protecting their fortunes, and are increasingly determined that their children also know the ropes, wealth managers say.
9 comments
Unemployment Rate Is Highest in 26 Years
Business  (tags: society, marketing, money, economy, business, consumers, ethics, debt, humans, investments, politics, investors, dishonesty, finance, news )

Suzybell
- 46 days ago - truthout.org
The benchmark revisions will show job loss was 824,000 larger than originally reported. The loss of 263,000 payroll jobs, coupled with a 0.1 hour decline in the average workweek, pushed the index of aggregate hours to 98.5, slightly below the 98.6 leve
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McDonald's CEO Paid 770 Times What Workers Earn? Protect Workers' Rights! - The Petition Site
Business  (tags: petition, politics, humans, business, consumers, corporate, cover-up, dishonesty, economy, ethics, money )

Daphna
- 49 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
McDonald's isn't lovin' free choice for its employees. The fast food giant is reportedly organizing its restaurant owners to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.
21 comments
Dear Big Ag: World Hunger Is Not for Sale
Business  (tags: world, SustainableDevelopment, society, money, government, ethics, humans, farming, farms, corporate, consumers )

Daphna
- 51 days ago - treehugger.com
The objectives of this week's Global Harvest Initiative symposium, which focused on coordinated efforts to address world hunger, were compelling. World hunger already affects 1 billion people and the numbers are projected to climb. Unfortunately, thanks t
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