By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal
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Is Worker Ownership a Way Forward for Market Basket? (Truthout)
Gar Alperovitz says the current protests at Market Basket are a sign of the desire for community and worker-friendly businesses, which he suggests are easier to achieve with employee ownership.
Surprise! North Carolina Cuts to Jobless Benefits Did Not Help Workers (TAP)
Valerie Wilson lays out the data, which shows that cutting the duration and amount of unemployment benefits did not magically improve the job market in North Carolina.
New York Prosecutors Charge Payday Lenders With Usury (NYT)
State prosecutors charged a group of lenders incorporated across the country with shared (and obscured) ownership of charging illegal interest rates to New Yorkers, reports Jessica Silver-Greenberg.
Give the President (and Yourself) a Break (U.S. News & World Report)
Instead of griping about the President's vacation, lawmakers should work to ensure that all Americans get paid vacation time and are able to use it, writes Pat Garofalo.
Unions Team Up With Fast-Food Owners (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Patrick Clark looks at the uneasy alliance between fast food franchisees and labor unions as they push for fairer franchising laws in California, which unions hope would translate into better working conditions.
It Matters How Rich the Rich Are (Policy Shop)
Matt Bruenig says that we must know how rich the rich are in order to fight poverty, since the distribution of wealth creates poverty. He also asks how we would know if policy is working without that data.
How Student Debt Crushes Your Chances of Buying a Home (WaPo)
Dina ElBoghdady looks at a new study that lays out the complex ways student debt interacts with homeownership, including a close look at total amount of debt and size of payments.