The Queen upgrades staff Christmas gift in sign of recession recovery – Telegraph.

Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives – NYTimes.com.

The Jobless Rate for People Like You – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com.
Looks like I’m in the group with the lowest unemployment rate. Yay?

The real story isn’t the business success of these startups. It’s the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success.
via Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell.

The full extent of executive pay.

Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 Even When Consumers Can’t Buy And Business Cries “Socialism” | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet.

How is it that Michael Moores father could buy a house and raise a family on the income of one auto worker, and still have a pension for his retirement? And yet this is not possible in the vastly more productive economy of today? The answer is not complicated: in the first half of the [...]

This is infuriating: According to today’s New York Times, most low-wage workers in America are victims of routine theft. The thieves: wealthy employers, who steal on average 15% of their low-wage employees’ pay by routinely underpaying them for their work, according to a new report.
via This Is Why Workers Shoot Their Employers – By Mark [...]