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April 3, 2026

Labor Department Rules Will Prevent Workers From Suing Employers That Put Their Retirement Savings at Risk

Eileen Applebaum CounterPunch

Access to workers’ nest eggs has long been a goal of the private equity industry. It has lobbied hard for this protection for employers as it wants to tap into the $9 billion in workers’ 401(k) accounts.

December 22, 2016

Retirement Pay Scandal, Trump Vow to Kill Medicare

Lawrence S. Wittner; Tierney Sneed LA Progressive

100 corporate CEOs possess company retirement funds totaling $4.7 billion - an amount equivalent to the entire retirement savings of 41 percent of U.S. families. Things were not always like this. From 1946 to 1980, a combination of union action and government policy led to the expansion of pension benefits for American workers. Now, Donald Trump's pick to direct the Office of Management and Budget says: We have to end Medicare as we know it.

labor

December 10, 2013

Obama, de Blasio, Fast-Food Workers and the Challenge of Inequality

Gregory N. Heires The New Crossroads

With our inequality coming close to that of Jamaica and Argentina, as Obama pointed out in his Dec. 4 speech on inequality and social mobility, we can no longer ignore the danger it poses to our democracy and living standards.

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