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Borrower Nightmares: Navy pension signed over as collateral for costly quick cash

By Jason McLure

Retired Navy doctor will pay eventual $242,000 for pension "loan" of $92,000

ANALYSIS: Health insurers would make consumers pay for better information

By Wendell Potter

Facing new ‘labeling’ mandate, health insurers threaten to pass $50 million compliance tab to policy-holders and employers.

Judge rules in favor of military retirees who traded their pensions for lump sum payments

By Jason McLure

Judge rules against company that offers "unscrupulous" military pension payouts
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FACT CHECK: Is Texas impervious to the recession?

By FactCheck.Org

Gov. Perry picks and chooses which economic statistics suit his presidential campaign, and his critics do the same

Excerpts from this story referencing "Labor":

"… that time period was 697,000, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means Texas jobs made up 47 percent of the national net j …"

"… health services, among others. The only sectors measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to decline since June 2009 were construction, manufacturing and …"

A failure of whistleblower protection

By The Center for Public Integrity

Whistleblowers are left open to retaliation despite new laws to protect them

Excerpts from this story referencing "Labor":

"… ing as a whistleblower. Despite these strong provisions, the Department of Labor has ruled in favor of whistleblowers who claimed to be retaliated against …"

"… for subsidiaries of the companies, not the main companies themselves. The Labor Department has argued that the statute does not cover employees of those s …"

"… tember 10, 2008, Senators Leahy and Grassley sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao accusing her department of violating the “spirit and goals†…"

Surge in outsourcing creates problems in performance, oversight

By The Center for Public Integrity

A 72 percent increase in federal contractor jobs makes oversight difficult, causes performance issues, and decreases competition
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Chronic understaffing at the EEOC

By The Center for Public Integrity

The Bush administration instituted a hiring freeze at the EEOC in 2001 and kept budget requests modest while complaints piled up

Failure to reform Social Security

By The Center for Public Integrity

Bush fails to reform Social Security through privatization

FACT CHECK: Spinning job growth

By FactCheck.Org

Using numbers to their advantage, Romney, Perry and Huntsman each hoped to shadow the other with inaccurate statistics

Excerpts from this story referencing "Labor":

"… That's true, according to data based on household surveys by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that's not the best measure. According to the most commonl …"

"… r times of national recession.We went to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to present an unvarnished look at the job growth and unemp …"

"… derived from payroll data to assess job growth. According to the Bureau of Labor's payroll data, the number of employed people in Utah went from 1,124,900 …"

45 million Americans without health insurance

By The Center for Public Integrity

Both parties agree system is broken, but proposed solutions differ sharply

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