One-fourth of Pentagon’s war zone pay to civilians was improper

By Julie Vorman

The Pentagon improperly spent $57.7 million on danger and hardship pay and other special allowances and pay differentials for nearly 9,000 c

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"… cted for an annual process control systems forum (OIG)* Oak Ridge National Laboratory lost track of hard drives containing classified information (OIG)* Ai …"

Mandatory one-week vacation legislation lacks congressional support

By Kat Aaron

As Congress leaves town for the July 4th recess, a timely bill is languishing in the House: the Paid Vacation Act. ...

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"… s not required, most Americans do get time off, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But the amount of time off varies widely. For instance, …"

Early warning

By Alan Green

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2004 — One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level
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A comprehensive look at unemployment figures

By Kat Aaron

Revelations that the nation’s unemployment rate reached its highest level in five years in August helped make the economy issue No. 1 on the

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"… for not looking currently for a job,” in the words of the Department of Labor. In other words, they stopped looking for work because they couldn’t fin …"

Defining the "fundamentals of the American economy"

By Kat Aaron

On September 15 — the day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, Merrill Lynch was purchased by Bank of America, and AIG faltered

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"… e. Can we get a definition?Looking for answers, PaperTrail called the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. A spokesperson chuckled when as …"

"… ing for answers, PaperTrail called the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. A spokesperson chuckled when asked whether BLS tracked the “ …"

Employment is worse than you think

By Kat Aaron

Everyone knows it’s a tough economy out there. But it may be even tougher than you realize. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 13.

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"… e. But it may be even tougher than you realize. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 13.7 million people were unemployed as of April 2009. But if y …"

"… discussed.Those folks are, however, counted in the Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization, one of the many often-overlooked charts that come out al …"

"… h before. That’s the smallest number of job openings since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began calculating job openings eight years ago.Also of note is …"

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Vast undercount of war contractors by defense tracking system

By Nick Schwellenbach

Nearly one-quarter of defense contractor employees deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and elsewhere in Southwest Asia — some 74,000 emplo

Looking beyond the May unemployment numbers

By Kat Aaron

As PaperTrail’s ongoing look behind the numbers, we’re digging into the May unemployment stats. The official unemployment rate is 9.4 percen

Invested in health care

By Brendan L. Smith

Three U.S. District judges presiding over legal challenges to the landmark federal health care law have held financial investments in the he

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"… . Bush to the bench in the Southern District of Mississippi, owns stock in Laboratory Corporation of America and Medtronic Inc. that he valued at less than …"

Scores of union leaders earn six-figure salaries

By John C. Henry

The Standoff in Wisconsin Between Gov. Walker and unions could “trickle up” to jeopardize fat compensation packages of labor leaders....

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"… unions ranged from $173,000 at the United Auto Workers to $618,000 at the Laborers’ International Union of North America and almost $480,000 for the pre …"

"… chtenstein, a history professor who runs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.To counter da …"

"… ntrast to the decline in traditional, private-sector unions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that while less than 7 percent of private sec …"

"… 340 in salary and benefits.The union reports, filed with the Department of Labor, show that assets of the various Labor unions run into the hundreds of mil …"

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