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Apple Dodges Billions In Taxes
Business  (tags: americans, business, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, economy, ethics, finance, government, investments, investors, usa, news, labor, law, marketing, money, society )

Robert
- 1 day ago - businessinsider.com
Apple's global cash tax rate was only 9.8%. It paid $3.3 billion of cash taxes on profits of $34 billion. (Cash taxes are the taxes Apple actually paid, as opposed to the "tax" line that appears on the income statement.)
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Video:Charts: Why You're in Deep Trouble If You Can't Afford a Lawyer
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JL
- 12 days ago - motherjones.com
Fifty years after the groundbreaking "Gideon" ruling, public defenders are overworked, underpaid--and America's poor are paying the price.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE U.S. TOMATO INDUSTRY
Business  (tags: corporate, dishonesty, business, abuse, politics, exploitation, minimum wage workers, corporate corporate election spending, labor, usa, ethics, corruption, usa, news )

Cal
- 13 days ago - e-activist.com
Florida's tomato farms supply 50% of all U.S. fresh tomatoes but have also been called America's 'ground zero for slavery.' Countless workers held against their will, threatened with violence and forced to haul hundreds of heavy tomato buckets a day for
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New Report: Taxpayers on the Hook When Corporate Giants Dump Workers Onto Medi-Cal(Action)
Business  (tags: dishonesty, corporate, abuse, americans, business, economy, ethics, finance, government, investing, investments, law, labor, lies, money, society, usa, wal-mart )

JL
- 14 days ago - calaborfed.org
Now a new report from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research shows just how widespread the problem is, projecting that as many as 380,000 workers for big companies will end up on the state's Medi-Cal program by 2019.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Walmart & Other American Retailers: Ensure Basic Safety & Human Rights for Workers in Bangladesh
Business  (tags: SAFETY CONDITIONS, safety conditions, labor, Bengladesh factory collapse, world, corporate, corruption, ethics, business, politics, news )

Cal
- 21 days ago - org.credoaction.com
Take immediate steps to deploy safety improvements in your supplier factories by joining the legally binding Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement and pay the compensation owed to injured workers and the families of workers killed while sewing yo
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MacIver Institute Ideologues Manage to Turn Lemonade Into Lemons
Business  (tags: corruption, dishonesty, americans, ethics, lies, media, politics, propaganda, republicans, usa, labor, society, corruption, economy, government )

JL
- 23 days ago - prwatch.org
So how close is Walker to his pledge to create 250,000 jobs? The Capital Times ran the numbers correctly, and their data count indicates that Wisconsin has 64,500 more jobs in February 2013 than it did in January 2011.
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Chocolatier Mondelez Pledges to Aid Women Farmers
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, dishonesty, ethics, farming, society, usa, world, news, labor, humanrights, HumanRights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

JL
- 24 days ago - bloomberg.com
Mondelez International Inc., (MDLZ) the world's biggest chocolatier, has agreed to work to improve the well-being of women cocoa farmers after an Oxfam International report detailed corporate shortcomings in human rights and sustainability.
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The Real Price of Gold | A Truth Seeker's Journey To Life - Rings of Slavery
Business  (tags: slavery, gold, jewelry, price, equalmoney, abuse, consumers, corruption, cover-up, economy, ethics, government, investments, labor, lies, money, news, politics, society, SustainableDevelopment, world, business )

Bernard
- 33 days ago - atruthseekersjourneyintolife.wordpress.com
Before you slip that gold ring onto your finger today or check the latest gold prices you may want to consider these facts. This is only a small percentage of what I could write about gold and I strongly recommend that you educate yourself about it.
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Two Years After Obama's Colombia "Labor Action Plan," Death Threats Against Unionists Persist Unabated
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JL
- 36 days ago - citizen.typepad.com
Grim Reality Contrasts with Obama Administration Promises Made to Promote Passage of U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
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Small Loans, Big Results: MicroTracker Outcomes Study
Business  (tags: economy, business, americans, abuse, ethics, finance, investments, lies, politics, society, labor, usa )

JL
- 36 days ago - us.accion.org
microloans from Accion create or sustain 5.6 jobs on average. Additionally, results indicate that microloans contribute to an increase in small business owner take-home pay, as well as business growth and expansion.
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Visas for High-Skilled Workers Could Double Under Bipartisan Senate Plan
Business  (tags: business, americans, politics, society, ethics, government, GoodNews, law, labor, technology )

JL
- 38 days ago - washingtonpost.com
A Senate immigration plan would dramatically increase the number of high-skilled foreign workers allowed into the country & give permanent legal status to an unlimited number of students who earn graduate degrees from U.S. universities in science, techn
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Take Action:Stop the Attacks on Our Rights at Work
Business  (tags: congress, crime, ethics, government, abuse, americans, propaganda, politics, republicans, usa, u.s., business, corporate, society, labor, law )

JL
- 42 days ago - action.cwa-union.org
Republicans in the House are trying to pass H.R. 1120, a bill that will prevent the National Labor Relations Board from enforcing labor laws.
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(BLM)Socioeconomic Impact--WA and OR
Business  (tags: conservation, habitat, government, ecosystems, protection, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, trees, americans, labor, money, finance, ethics, economy )

JL
- 42 days ago - blm.gov
Employment Through the use of contracts, partnerships and special initiatives, the BLM employs local workers to fight fires, build bridges, and conduct fish and wildlife habitat improvement projects. These jobs result in cost savings for the state
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Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC
Business  (tags: children, babies, family, ethics, health, humans, illness, protection, risks, safety, women, society, prevention, investments, labor, law, consumers )

JL
- 44 days ago - prwatch.org
In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers
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Peace Jobs
Business  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, HumanRights, freedoms, GoodNews, ethics, society, marketing, money, labor, SustainableDevelopment, abuse, americans, consumers, economy )

JL
- 47 days ago - studentpeacealliance.org
What Is Peace Jobs? Peace Jobs are decent jobs that can: Reduce physical, emotional, environmental, economic, and social violence in our local and global communities. Mitigate socially, economically unsustainable, and peace non-friendly practice
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