Chained CPI Will Reduce Your Social Security Benefits Economic Populist ...There is a war on social security and America is losing the battle. One constant in the fiscal cliff negotiations is the agenda to cut your retirement benefits by a ruse, a lowering of the inflation adjustment...
A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries Pew Research Center ...a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least one of the six best-known federal entitlement programs...
Poor records hurt jobs agency Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Missing safeguards, staff turnover and shoddy bookkeeping within the state's flagship jobs agency led to delinquent loans going uncollected, financial deals being misstated or unrecorded, and credit card and other transactions getting no checks for fraud or errors, outside auditors have found...
Video shows girl, 15, battered in Florida juvenile prison Miami Herald ...A guard at a (private) Northwest Florida juvenile prison was jailed after a tape showed the abuse of a teen. Now she is back on the job...
Private prisons not saving us money – so why do we still have them? Tucson Citizen ... recent investigations by the Arizona Republic, the Associated Press and prison watchdog groups, the American Friends Service Committee and The Sentencing Project, have shown private prisons are actually costing taxpayers more money than if the government ran the prisons...
Teamsters Strongly Oppose Cuts To Social Security IBT ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa urged President Obama and Congress to reject any proposal to cut Social Security benefits by adopting the chained consumer price index ("chained CPI") to calculate cost-of-living adjustments...
Flight Dispatchers at Allegiant Air Vote to Join Teamsters IBT ...Flight dispatchers at Allegiant Air have voted to join Teamsters Local 986, the Teamsters Airline Division announced today. There are 21 dispatchers in the bargaining unit and the vote was 15 to 5...
Greenburgh Approves Budget, Settles Teamsters Contract Greenburgh Daily Voice ...the Town Board finally settled a contract with the Teamsters Union, which represents Greenburgh's Department of Public Works employees, who have been without a contract for several years...
Teamsters Overwhelmingly Approve Illinois Central Master Agreement IBT ...Teamsters Local 777 and Teamsters Local 179 members in Illinois have overwhelmingly approved the first-ever master agreement with Illinois Central School Bus, the fifth-largest provider of school bus transportation in the United States...
OLG and Teamsters make agreement Blackburn News ...An agreement has been reached in the labour dispute at Pt Edward Casino. Ontario Lottery and Gaming and the teamsters union have come to terms on a tentative contract agreement to end the lockout of 38 security officers...
