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Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace Newsletter December 11th, 2008 More from Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace »

Americans Are Crazy Workaholics -- It's Time We Brought More Balance to Our Lives By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post "No life," "no family" and "can devote, literally, 19-20 hours a day" to work. Sound familiar? That's our future Homeland Security chief talking. Read more »   AlterNet has launched 100 Words for 100 Days, a new project to publish our readers' visions for Obama's highest priorities. You're invited to contribute. Every day from now until Obama's inauguration we will publish 8 new visionary essays by AlterNet readers in our new 100 Words for 100 Days section on our front page (just scroll down to view the section). We've already gotten started, click here for reader contributions that we have already run on the site.     Obama's Jobs Plan: Biggest Investment in Our Infrastructure in 50 Years By Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor Facing the greatest job losses since 1974, Obama plans massive investment in public works. Read more »   5 Disastrous Decisions That Got Us into This Economic Mess By Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future economic policy is a debate over history -- here are the major mistakes that got us here. Read more »   Bank of America's Greed Sparked the Eye-Opening Worker's Strike in Chicago By John Woodruff Jr., Portside The bank took $25 billion of taxpayers' cash, but wouldn't lend Republic Windows and Doors the money it needed to keep going. Read more »   A Message for America's Ruling Class: We Told You So By David Sirota, AlterNet Our bipartisan political Establishment and sycophantic punditburo have been wrong on the economy over and over again. Read more »   Towards an Economic System That Works for People and the Planet By John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies A civil society statement on the G20 summit from IPS Director John Cavanagh and coalition members. Read more »   Death by Shoppers -- Haunted by Wal-Mart By Rene Ciria-Cruz, New America Media Perhaps we need a big public health campaign to start curbing uncontrolled shopping. Read more »   Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces By Frank Ackerman, Dollars and Sense As the climate science debate is reaching closure, the climate economics debate is heating up. Read more »   A Bad Auto Bailout Is Cheaper Than Any Bank Bailout By Nomi Prins, AlterNet Whether or not bailing out the Big Three makes financial sense (which it doesn't), it's still a fraction of the cost of bailing out Wall Street. Read more »   War, Environmental Destruction, Recession: It's Time for a Revolution By Marcus Raskin, Robert Spero, AlterNet You know you are in a perilous time when the optimist and pessimist agree. Read more »   Our Biggest Problem Is Bigness Itself By Burt Cohen, AlterNet Far too much of America's energy is being drained today in frenzied attempts to prop up corporate bigness. Read more »   Slashing Wages Will Hurt Workers, But It Won't Save the Big Three By Jane Slaughter, Mark Brenner, Labor Notes Some conservatives are using inaccurate numbers to pin the blame for Detroit's pain on union workers. Read more »   Coca-Cola's Latest Environmental Scam By Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center Under fire for its mismanagement of water resources in India, Coke has gone all out to create an image of itself as a leader in water conservation. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Will the U.S. Really Start Hemorrhaging One Million Jobs Per Month in 2009? By Booman, Booman Tribune We may be headed for Depression era soup lines at warp speed. Read more »   Burn the Bailout Money, It'd Be More Useful on Fire By Brad, Sadly, No! Say, how's the bailout going? Read more »   Why the Right Will Oppose Getting Us Out of Recession By Matt Stoller, Open Left People that have money would prefer that they remain on top, and will oppose attempts to restart spending from a broad base. Read more »   Bush Signs Executive Order Barring Union Rights By Caitlin Price, Jurist Legal News and Research The order denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in agencies responsible for national security. Read more »

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