Based on its analysis of employment data, USA Today reports that pay cuts, reduced hours, furloughs and involuntary part-time work have driven the working class back to conditions not seen since the 1930s: here.
A billionaire businessman from upstate New York, disgruntled over a minor tax increase, has orchestrated a political “coup” in the state Senate in Albany, transferring power from the Democratic majority to the Republicans: here.
Britain: The scale of the cuts in public spending being prepared by both the Labour government and the Conservative opposition was made clear in a series of interviews and parliamentary exchanges on Wednesday: here.
