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Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich has written about living as a low-wage worker (Nickel and Dimed) and looking for a white-collar job (Bait and Switch). She spoke recently with TIME's Jeremy Caplan about her new book, This Land is Your Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, a collection of emotionally charged essays...
...excuse for a long time. Anything you don't like about this economy - declining wages and speed-ups at work - it's because we have to be competitive. Yet I look at the top and see that American CEOs, for example, are paid much more relative to the average worker than CEOs in other countries...
...character," says Anwar. "But I don't think the public will be so gullible to believe this accusation. I've had senior politicians tell me that people are angry, that the government has lost all credibility by doing this." That's certainly what Anwar's supporters believe, including office worker Hanifah Majid, who showed her solidarity by bringing her sleeping children with her to the lobby of a hotel where Anwar was strategizing his defense well past midnight. Still, it's not yet clear how parliamentarians who were tempted to join the opposition will react to the sodomy accusation. Already...
...Arab construction worker driving a bulldozer went on a rampage through the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday, smashing buses and cars and killing three people before police leapt onto the speeding vehicle and shot him dead. Dozens more people were wounded in the incident, say Jerusalem police...
...construction worker in Sadr City says his life has changed little, despite the influx of Iraqi troops earlier this month. "It's the same situation as before. The Mahdi Army seized anyone who worked with the Americans or the state. Now the Iraqi army arrests innocents too," the man, who goes by Abu Hussein, told TIME. "The government promised it would rebuild. But we get nothing... They are not making things easier...