Banker Bob's £63m jackpot: Anger and disgust as scale of City fat-cat culture hits new record: One of Britain's richest bankers has landed a record pay package of £63.3million. The extraordinary deal for Barclays president Bob Diamond sparked a major new row over payouts to banking fat cats. Cigna Gives $110.9 Million Compensation Package To Ex-CEO: The insurance giant Cigna last year gave compensation packages worth more than $120 million to two executives who left the company, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday Bankrupt banks: Regulators seize seven more banks: Seven banks closed in Georgia, Utah, Ohio, Minnesota and Alabama brought the number of U.S. bank bankruptcies to 37 so far this year, regulators said. Unemployment soars in U.S. metropolitan areas: Unemployment rates in 363 U.S. metropolitan areas rose in January, and 346 areas reported year-on-year declines in their number of jobs, the Labor Department said The homeless pay the price: Homeless and mental health services in the US are being cut back as cities, counties and states run out of cash
Sunday, 21 March 2010
How Criminals Profit From War
By Jason Groves
By Jim Hightower
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you--and they are! "They" are the corporate powers that collect our consumer dollars and then, as hush-hush as possible, use that money to finance their interlocked array of right-wing foundations, think tanks, "scholars," media sparklies, political personalities, and other fronts. Continue
By Alan Nasser
Social care investment generates more than twice the number of jobs as infrastructure spending and 1.5 times the number of jobs as green energy spending. And social care investment is more effective than each of the other types in providing work to those with the least education, low-income households and women. Continue
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