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According to safety reports submitted by corporations to America's Occupational Safety and Health officials, workplace injuries on are the decline in our country.
Great--if the trend-line were true.
Why isn't it? Because many burns, cuts, ruptures, poisonings, and other on-the-job injuries are... [read more]
Unions, citizens groups, and other reformers are working to help make America's working places safe. Here are just a few resources to learn more and to get involved:
AFL-CIO: http://www.aflcio.org
Download its 2010 “Death on the Job” report: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/safety/... [read more]
To learn more about net neutrality, check out these websites:
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Dozens of national groups, as well as groups in practically every state, are developing populist ideas and organizing populist actions. Here are a few (we will assemble a more complete list on the Lowdown website--and you can help by submitting... [read more]
For the super-rich hoity-toities of our land, the democratic populism arising among the hoi polloi is a no-no. Instead of populism, the upper-crusters want a different "ism"--plutonomism.
This word was derived from "plutocracy" in 2005 by a team of "global investment... [read more]
"Tony Two-step" is too much, isn't he? Tony Hayward, I mean, the slick CEO of BP who keeps trying to two-step his way around the public's fury over the oily mess he and other top executives have made.
"What the hell... [read more]
Democratic leaders in Washington have responded to the Supreme Court's January dictate allowing oceans of corporate campaign cash to flood America's elections.
It's the DISCLOSE Act (or, more fully, the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act).... [read more]
CALIFORNIA'S CORPORATICIANS
The California GOP has chosen two extremely rich women as its candidates for the state's top two political offices.
Meg Whitman, running for governor, and Carly Fiorina, running for U.S. senate, are both former CEOs and multimillionaires who spent truckloads of... [read more]