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Chad Newcome confided little to his wife over the years about the failing pension fund that threatened their dreams, wanting to spare her the anxiety that haunted him day and night. But two years ago, after congressional Democrats passed legislation...
by Tom Conway
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on Fri May 05, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Monday, Mar 20, 2023 · 6:41:57 PM +00:00 · Chitown Kev France 24 reports that a second no-confidence vote sponsored by a far-right coalition has failed. The pension reforms have been adopted. French President Emmanuel Macron has survived a...
by Chitown Kev
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 11:31 AM PDT
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I wrote a diary which disappeared in the Kos-apocalypse on the French retirement system, and have no intention of repeating it. Protests kick off in Paris as Macron forces through controversial pension reform French President Emmanuel Macron on...
by LaFeminista
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 11:42 AM PDT
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On March 6th 2023, while watching Sky News , they reported on�a paper entitled “ Growing Pains ”�which was from the Centre for Progressive ...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Mar 12, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Michael McMullen spent years agonizing over the failing pension plan that put his golden years at risk. He wrote numerous postcards and made countless phone calls urging Congress to step in and safeguard his future. But not until he and fellow...
by Tom Conway
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 08:17 AM PST
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In case you missed this: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) erupted Tuesday on the House floor, imploring his Republican colleagues to stop their obsession with stoking culture wars and shift focus to helping Democrats pass legislation to aid Americans struggling...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Mar 10, 2021 at 06:31 AM PST
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We now know Trump will be pardoning everyone around him, and there will be nothing we can do to stop it. However, assuming a Dem senate when Biden takes over, we can do *something*. I say enact a bill to deny any Federal pension of any sort...
by estamm
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on Wed Dec 23, 2020 at 04:58 AM PST
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So. The elderly are waking up after dozing off watching The Price is Right, with Drew Carey. They are witnessing a president that says he is for them and all else, yet, the man doesn’t have to live on social security, so why should he worry about...
by marroyo66
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on Tue Oct 06, 2020 at 04:53 AM PDT
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More than 25,000 brave employees at Giant and Safeway grocery stores in the Washington, D.C. area may go on strike over pensions, benefits, and wage freeze proposals, as reported by WAMU. These workers come from close to 300 stores in the D.C. and...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Feb 18, 2020 at 09:09 AM PST
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General Electric announced Monday it would be freezing its pension plan for around 20,000 current employees, while offering to buy out around 100,000 former employees from their pension. USA Today reports that GE has said it will offer up “lump-sum...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 07, 2019 at 08:57 AM PDT
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The Trump Supreme Court sided with business over workers yet again, in a case that got the four liberal justices so exercised that they each wrote their own dissent. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sat Apr 27, 2019 at 03:55 PM PDT
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Republicans like to pretend that their fascination with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t involve a big helping of fear, but every now and then they drop the facade and let the fear show through openly. That’s the case with Republican Rep. Andy...
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Apr 17, 2019 at 09:31 AM PDT
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Marsh Supermarkets has declared bankruptcy. Investors will come out of the proceedings whole. The employees not so much.
...although the sell-off allowed Sun Capital and its investors to recover their money and then some, the company entered...
by azindy
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on Sun Dec 30, 2018 at 02:51 PM PST
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Give 30 years of your life to a company, no severance; drive a company into the ground, get millions I worked in retail for about twelve years. I started out at the local lumberyard after I got out of the Army, loading trucks in the yard. I worked my way up to counter sales, and eventually manager ...
by Mark E Andersen
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on Sun Nov 25, 2018 at 10:30 AM PST
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If some people are to be believed, there was a time between the 50s and 70s when all American workers had pension benefits so generous that upon turning 65, they could take their golden watch and live with no worries in Florida and spend the rest of...
by kernals
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on Sun Oct 28, 2018 at 10:57 AM PDT
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I have mixed feelings about The Intercept but this article about the “Private Equity Governor”, Bruce Rauner (R. IL), who has long been a foe of public pensions, actually shows how much of ...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Oct 22, 2018 at 08:50 AM PDT
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Matthew Luxmoore reports in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty that ordinary Russians are taking a dimmer view of Vladimir Putin since his party announced cuts in Russian pensions (the Russian counterpart ...
by Lincoln green
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on Mon Oct 15, 2018 at 06:17 AM PDT
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Many of us have noticed a profound collusion of our moneyed elite in parallel with those in Russia, specifically. Putin just raised Russia’s retirement age to 65 like ours, effectively declaring he doesn’t need the support of the Communist Party...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Sun Sep 16, 2018 at 04:23 PM PDT
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New documents reviewed by investigative journalists at Capital & Main and non-profit political money watchdog MapLight show that New Jersey’s and Ohio’s state pensions are heavily invested in Chatham Asset Management. Chatham Asset Management has...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Aug 30, 2018 at 09:18 AM PDT
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Hi all!! Got some news stuff from my little corner of the world. It’s nothing frightening...oh..scratch that. It’s not world-ending stuff, so no need to panic...I think…
As you can see by ...
by Gwennedd
37 comments
on Fri Aug 10, 2018 at 10:06 PM PDT
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