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The Widening Wealth Gap: Bringing Income Inequality Into Focus

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For The Unemployed, Jobless Claims Were Ideas To Help Bridge Nearly Unchanged The Gap To Work Last Week
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The widening gap between the rich and poor in the U.S. has become a central touch point for economists, pundits and politicians across the U.S. New York City's newly sworn-in mayor, Bill deBlasio, was elected after campaigning against a city divided between the haves and havenots. President Obama has called

tackling inequality the defining challenge of our time, saying that growing inequality and a lack of upward mobility jeopardizes the American dream. But what, exactly, is income inequality? Audie Cornish puts that question to Drew DeSilver, a senior writer for the Pew Research Center's Fact Tank blog. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Could Salary Bump Mean Economic Slump? Contract Offer

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Submitted at 1/3/2014 9:20:00 AM

'Playboy' Gets How NAFTA Pranked: Group Flips Machinists To Vote Helped The Mexican The Script On Sex On Boeing's Latest Billionaires' Club (Business)
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More than 1 million people lost their unemployment benefits as 2014 began. Whether or not those benefits get extended, economists say there are ways to change the program that will make it work better. One suggestion is work sharing, which has helped reduce Germany's unemployment. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

But the fact that 339,000 applications were filed the fewest in a month is a hopeful sign. Meanwhile, the most-anticipated news about the labor market each month, on the unemployment rate and job growth, won't be released until Jan. 10. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

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Minimum wage workers in 13 states will see a bump in their paychecks this year. Host Michel Martin talks about the possible ripple effects of raising minimum wages. She's joined by Bloomberg Businessweek contributor Roben Farzad and NPR Senior Business Editor Marilyn Geewax. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Boeing machinists are set to vote Friday on whether to accept a slightly -revised offer that union members recently rejected. Union leaders say they want to preserve pay and benefits. But they fear if machinists don't accept the offer, Boeing may move production of the 777X elsewhere. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

When the North American Free Trade Agreement was being negotiated, supporters promised it would increase the income of Mexicans. And the middle class did grow over the past two decades. But it's clear that the country's ultrarich are its big winners. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

A Baltimore-based group is working to change the messages companies are sending about sex. So far, it has created convincing, fake websites pretending to be Playboy and Victoria's Secret but putting an emphasis on consent. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Cork Versus Screw Cap: Don't Judge A Wine By How It's Sealed
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A Bet, Five Metals How Scarcity Trap And The Future Of The Planet Affects Our Thinking, Behavior (Business)
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Ford Tops Resurgent U.S. Car Industry, 2013 Sales Results Show
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Remember screw caps on jugs of wine? These days, many winemakers have wholeheartedly embraced the screw tops not just for their ease of use, but for the way they seal the wine's taste. Now many consumers are learning to look past the caps' former downmarket reputation. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

A Harvard economist finds there are psychological connections between the bad financial planning of many poor people and the poor time management of busy professionals. In both cases, he finds the experience of scarcity causes biases in the mind that exacerbate problems. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Decades ago, amid fears of rapid population growth, a biologist and an economist made a bet about how many people the planet could sustain. Global population is now estimated to top 7.1 billion. So who won the famous bet? E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Ford and GM are calling 2013 the best year for U.S. auto sales in at least five years, as they report double-digit annual gains. Chrysler reported an increase of 9 percent, its strongest year since 2007. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Visitors To Colorado Will Find Few Legal Places To Smoke Pot

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Submitted at 1/3/2014 3:23:00 AM

Consortium Threatens To Pull Plug On Panama Canal Expansion

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Beanie Baby Creator Faces Jail Time For Evading Taxes

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Recreational marijuana has been on sale in Colorado for a couple days now. Residents of the state may

purchase marijuana for their personal use at home. But it can be difficult for visitors to find a place to use pot since smoking in public is still illegal. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

Grupo Unidos por el Canal, made up of Spanish, Italian, Belgian and Panamanian firms, says it will halt work if it doesn't get paid for $1.6 billion in cost overruns in the next three weeks. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

H. Ty Warner has asked a judge for probation. He's scheduled to be sentenced later this month for evading taxes on a secret Swiss bank account. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us

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Cybersecurity Merger Ups FireEye's Stock Price

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Submitted at 1/3/2014 3:22:00 AM

In a $1 billion deal, FireEye acquires Mandiant, which gained fame last year for linking cyberattacks to a Chinese military unit. E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us