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101 Tools to Run Your Home More Like a Business
Business  (tags: Business, Internet, Tools, Web, Home, Work )

Jollygirl
- 190 days ago - earnaccountingdegree.com
By using tools that streamline the work of businesses, you'll find that it's easy to get things done. Read on and you'll find 101 tools that will make your home run like a business.
Sign Petition: Tell Congress to Pass the Healthy Families Act
Business  (tags: business, americans, economy, corporate, money, health, protection, jobs, sick, pay, society, culture, law, government )

Tom
- 199 days ago - change.org
The Centers for Disease Control gives good advice to stay home if you're sick. Unfortunately nearly half of private sector workers in the United States don't have a single paid sick day. For them staying home means losing pay and perhaps losing their job.
Why We Need to Pay More for Primark + Be Sure That It 'Trickles Down' to the Workers
Business  (tags: abuse, world, business, corporate, corruption, cover-up, finance, investments, marketing )

Suzybell
- 218 days ago - peopletree.co.uk
Safia talks to Mr Amin, Director of National Garment Workers Federation, who represents garment workers and campaigns for their rights about the grim realities of the real costs of fast fashion.Long working hours instead of 9 hours they work 14 hours or
Crimes Suspected in 20 Bailout Cases -- for Starters
Business  (tags: money, bailout, government, politics, society, finance, economy, dishonesty, corruption, corporate, business, foreclosures, cover-up, debt, abuse, americans, consumers, investing, ethics )

Tom
- 230 days ago - latimes.com
In the first major disclosure of corruption in the $750-billion financial bailout program, federal investigators said Monday they have opened 20 criminal probes into possible securities fraud, tax violations, insider trading and other crimes.
Sign Petition: End Sweatshops and Slavery in the Fields
Business  (tags: human rights, farm workers, slavery, fast food, Immokalee, Florida, agriculture, business, crime, government, abuse, humans, society, economy, corporate, consumers )

Tom
- 266 days ago - tinyurl.com
Burger King and other food industry leaders have not only refused to join Yum! Brands and McDonald's in working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve farm labor conditions, but have actually sought to reverse gains made by workers.
Why the Slow Food Movement Needs to Help Stop America's Slave Labor
Business  (tags: human rights, farm workers, slavery, fast food, Immokalee, Florida, agriculture, business, crime, government, abuse, humans, society, economy, corporate, consumers )

Tom
- 266 days ago - alternet.org
If you eat tomatoes, in America, between the months of December and May, chances are some were picked by slaves. Immokalee, Florida, is where 90 percent of the nation's winter tomatoes are grown. We need to be in solidarity with those who grow our food.
Mitsubishi Signs First Solar Deal, to Build Plant With Acciona
Business  (tags: energy, business, consumers, technology, investing, environment )

Ana
- 278 days ago - bloomberg.com
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Mitsubishi Corp., Japan's largest trading house, signed a contract for its first solar investment, tying up with Spanish builder Acciona SA to operate a generating plant in Portugal.
Solar Incentive Quickens Payback
Business  (tags: economy, investments, environment, energy, usa )

Ana
- 278 days ago - jsonline.com
Incentives to add solar panels on homes and small businesses are higher than they've ever been. That stems both from a tax credit that Congress authorized last year as well as incentives from Focus on Energy and We Energies.
American Citizens in Appalachia Are Living in a State of Terror - End the Clean Coal Lies
Business  (tags: corporate, dishonesty, americans, business, ethics, environment )

Roseann
- 285 days ago - alternet.org
Like sitting ducks waiting to be buried in an avalanche of mountain waste, we are trapped in a war zone within our own country. Resident's letter to Prez. Obama
What a Slump in Carbon Prices Means for the Future
Business  (tags: pollution, politics, Sustainabililty, humansethics, society, money )

Ana
- 299 days ago - enn.com
It is getting progressively cheaper to pollute the atmosphere. The price of permits to emit carbon dioxide has crashed, falling to 9.30 euros ($12) per tonne of CO2 on Tuesday, close to the all-time low of 8 euros.
 
 
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