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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
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
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
on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 11:42 AM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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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
on Sun Mar 12, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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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
on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 08:17 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
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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
on Wed Mar 10, 2021 at 06:31 AM PST
with 60 Recommends
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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
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
on Tue Oct 06, 2020 at 04:53 AM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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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
on Tue Feb 18, 2020 at 09:09 AM PST
with 11 Recommends
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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
on Mon Oct 07, 2019 at 08:57 AM PDT
with 107 Recommends
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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
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
on Wed Apr 17, 2019 at 09:31 AM PDT
with 305 Recommends
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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
on Sun Dec 30, 2018 at 02:51 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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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
on Sun Nov 25, 2018 at 10:30 AM PST
with 225 Recommends
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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
on Sun Oct 28, 2018 at 10:57 AM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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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
on Mon Oct 22, 2018 at 08:50 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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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
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
on Sun Sep 16, 2018 at 04:23 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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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
on Thu Aug 30, 2018 at 09:18 AM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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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
on Fri Aug 10, 2018 at 10:06 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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