Four hundred million times a year, employees of a little-known company called NCO dial the telephone "just to talk."NCO's hope: A simple chat will convince people to pay old debts.

Mortgage lenders are being pressured to re-negotiate the terms on critical U.S. housing loans, while the rising foreclosure rate still threatens the national economy like an incoming sandstorm.

Over the past few years, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) has used groundbreaking legal victories and grassroots campaigns to protect your food by putting a halt on the sale and plantings of many GMO crops.

Slightly better numbers than expected. From Bloomberg.

The proposed marriage of Comcast Corp.,the nation's largest cable and broadband provider, with NBC Universal, a Hollywood powerhouse, presents the Obama administration with its first big chance to weighin on the controversial issue of media consolidation.

The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown. And no one loves the free market better than the pilfering robber barons, aka Republicans and their cronies.

The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.

Aug 1 : exclusion for farms? Gone! bill was completely wiped and replaced with an amendment far more lethal :seizes control of food production ,hands it over to big agri-corporations, expanding the FDA

On-the-job training has its roots in the Middle Ages. Apprenticeship, it was called then, and it generally was for the young.

Again this year, most New Jersey state workers have the day after Thanksgiving off. But at a price: They are on unpaid furlough.