Antitrust Law and Economics Review
Publication about anti-trust policies,from perspective that public interest has been lost to politics and anti-competitive policies. (Last issue dated 1997, although issues still relevant.)
http://www.metrolink.net/~cmueller/
Mergers and Corporate Consolidation in the New Economy
Report by Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission to the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, in 1998.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/1998/06/merger98.tes.htm
Clinton, Republicans Agree to Deregulation of US Financial System
News article critical of bank reform and deregulation alleding it encouages financial monopolies,loss of privacy and other harmful effects. From World Socialist Web Site. (11-1-99).
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/nov1999/bank-n01.shtml
BBC News -- Historic US Banking Reform
BBC News report that US Congress passes banking reform, allowing insurance companies, banks and stockbrokers to own each other - and possibly triggering a new merger wave. (11-5-99)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/506207.stm
Goodbye Glass-Steagall, Hello Big Mergers -- and Big Fees?
Article in Business Week Online (10-29-99) contending bank mergers will not bring higher consumer fees because of other competition.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct1999/nf91029b.htm?scriptFramed
21 Ideas -- Business Week
21 predictions on how business and society will operate in the 21st Century. (From Business Week Magazine, Aug.30 1999)
http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_35/2121_content.htm
The Golembe Reports
Provides analysis of critical public policy issues facing banking.
http://www.thegolembereports.com
Globalization Index 2005
The A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index tracks and assesses changes in four key components of global integration.
http://www.atkearney.com/main.taf?p=5,4,1,116
LabourStart
International news portal about labor and union issues
http://www.labourstart.org
LaborNet
Labor news and information, commentary and resources from online community of unions and activists.
http://www.labornet.org/
UNITE HERE
UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) merged on July 8, 2004 forming UNITE HERE.
http://www.uniteunion.org/
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics -- Univ.. of Michigan
The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and families, which has been ongoing since 1968.
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Background and research and other information and resources about employment issues
http://www.upjohninst.org/
Economic Analysis and Research Network
The Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) is a collaboration of national, state, and regional, advocacy, policy, and research organizations.
http://www.earncentral.org/
Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
A community oriented research and advocacy organization based at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/
Market-Responsive Education and Employment Training System Projects (MEETS)
MEETS seeks to enhance collaboration of employers, industry leaders, business associations, educators, trainers, community and technical college systems, and other partners in the public and private workforce system.
http://www.ubalt.edu/jfi/briefseries/
Executive PayWatch
Analysis and information about disparity between executive salaries and other workers, from AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/index.cfm
United for a Fair Economy
UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart.
http://www.faireconomy.org/
Anti-Slavery International
Advocates for the eradication of slavery and other forms of forced labor and slavery-like practices around the world.
http://www.antislavery.org/
Diversity Inc
News and information about the role of diversity in strengthening the corporate bottom line. Selected items from monthly magazine.
http://www.diversityinc.com
NMASS - National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Activist, anti-sweatshop coalition.
http://www.nmass.org/default.htm
Online NewsHour: Sweatshops
Text and panel discussion about sweatshops from PBS News Hour. (July 16, 1996)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july96/sweatshops_7-16a.html
World Bank Development News
Daily online news and information site from the World Bank. Includes news and analysis on global debt issues.
http://www.worldbank.org/developmentnews/
U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice
News, information and resources from organization that seeks to democratize World Bank and other world financial systems and institutions.
http://www.50years.org/
Jubilee Research
A project aimed at cancelling Third World debt owed to Western countries.
http://www.jubileeresearch.org/
BBC News : The burden of debt
BBC News Online examines the issues surrounding global debt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/06/99/debt/360185.stm
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