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In a surprise move for a right to work state On October 23, the Broward County Commission in Florida passed the Wage Recovery Ordinance, a victory for workers and workers rights advocates in Florida, and an encouraging sign for similar groups around the country including Michigan and Illinois. Opponents maintain that there are already sufficient laws in place to protect workers against losing owed pay, and that the new procedures are merely extra, unwelcome bureaucracy. Supporters believe this law makes it even easier, and helps avoid court appearances. 

Heather McGhee makes the case for the National Popular Vote and universal registration.

5. Will old-school voter intimidation and suppression come into play?

This refers to all the steps that have been taken by the GOP in recent years to complicate the voting process, discourage participation and scare off new voters.

A class action lawsuit was filed against Walmart in Chicago last week, alleging that Walmart cheated its part-time and temporary workers of earnings and deprived them of mandatory rest breaks by requiring them to come in early and work through their lunch breaks.  

The money is the story. The money is the only story. The money was not the only story ever since this campaign began, which was 15 minutes after the past one ended, but it became the only story on January 21, 2010, when the Supreme Court reversed a lower-court decision in the case of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, thereby demolishing almost a century of state and federal laws aimed at controlling the system by which we finance our political campaigns.

Apple has the largest market capitalization of any corporation in the U.S.

Small business owners, it turns out, are like everybody else. They are Democrats and Independents as well as Republicans. A few make a lot of money; others not nearly so much.

Tomorrow’s GDP numbers will likely show a growth rate around 1.9 percent. Economists predict that an increase in consumer spending will be what helps boost this quarter’s GDP growth rate, which is higher than last quarters’ increase of 1.3 percent. The quarterly GDP release is also a time when we again ask, what exactly are we measuring?

Several developments in the past three years suggest that the case for upholding section 5 against constitutional challenge has been strengthened compared to the situation in 2009.