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Claire Gordon has contributed to Slate's DoubleX, the Huffington Post, and the book Prisons: Current Controversies. While an undergraduate at Yale University and a research fellow at Yale graduate school, she spoke on panels at Yale and Cornell, and reported from Cairo, Tokyo, and Berlin.
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40% Of Fast Food Workers Think Their Jobs Might Make The World Worse
In the book-turned-movie "Thank You for Smoking," tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor meets every week with his buds, a firearms lobbyist and alcohol lobbyist, and later with lobbyists from the fast food, hazardous waste and oil drilling industries. They call themselves the "Merchants of Death" or "The MOD ...
Continue Reading »Standing beside her boyfriend of four years, in her empire waist, strapless white dress, Yasmin Guadalupe Romero Gameros could pretend that she wasn't in the cafeteria of the Plamex facility in Tijuana, Mexico, where she welds headsets full-time. She could, that is, if it wasn't for the 27 other spiffed-up ...
Continue Reading »Last year, over 1,500 returning troops claimed they were denied jobs or fired because of their military service obligations. In almost one in five of these cases, the culprit was the federal government, The Washington Post discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request. And of all federal agencies, the ...
Continue Reading »Moments after birth, the exact time and cause of death of every human being is determined through a genetic test. Those with a high likelihood of a disease or a learning disorder, or a lower life expectancy, are then resigned to a menial job. This is the world of "Gattaca," a 1997 film set in the ...
Continue Reading »Both Republicans and Democrats agree that real and sustained job growth has to come from the private sector. The problem is, the private sector isn't spending much -- and not because they don't have the money. U.S. corporations are sitting on over half a trillion dollars in cash reserves, according to a new ...
Continue Reading »In its 500 episodes, "The Simpsons" has shredded every facet of modern American life. Its insights have been fodder for countless academic papers, and numerous books, like "The Simpsons and Society," "The Simpsons and Philosophy," "The Psychology of the Simpsons," "The Springfield Reformation," "The Gospel ...
Continue Reading »Some say it's a devil's bargain. Arizona government employees, who have suffered recent pay cuts, could get a 5 percent raise. All they have to do is give up many of their civil service protections, reports Stateline. Gov. Jan Brewer's "personnel reform" proposal, if it becomes law, would strip away much of the ...
Continue Reading »Eli Pierre has over a decade of experience in the food industry, and a rave recommendation from his last employer. So he was surprised when his interviewer for a position at a California Starbucks told him he'd be unable to work there. Now he's suing for disability discrimination. The 25-year-old was born ...
Continue Reading »Restaurant workers are five times more likely to be sexually harassed than the general working population. Servers are three times more likely to live in poverty, and twice as likely to rely on food stamps. As a new report from the Restaurant Opportunities Center states: "Essentially, many of the workers who ...
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Undercover Yet Again
The popular show is back for a third season.Undercover Boss
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Celebs share the secrets to their success. Secrets Of Success
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These stories are sure to give you something to talk about.
