Bangladesh Takes Big Step, Euro Controversy, Bad News For America's Youth

May 6, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Bangladesh Agrees To Improve Worker Conditions After Factory Collapse Bangladeshi authorities are taking steps to improve worker safety in the wake of a factory collapse that killed hundreds, Bloomberg reports. Bangladesh's government, employers and workers have agreed to a plan with the International Labour Organization that would relocate unsafe factories, retrain workers injured in recent factory disasters, recruit more government inspectors and allow for collective bargaining, among other provisions, according to a statement posted on the ILO website.  Continue reading... Man Who Helped Start Euro Now Wants To Abandon It Warren Buffett: We Pay Too Much Attention To Record-High Stocks Terrible News For America's Youth And The City With The Worst Traffic Is... Toys R Us Appeals Huge Award Over Slide Death 10 Popular Retailers With Dark Labor Histories And The City With The Worst Traffic Is... LOOK: Customer Cancels Pizza Pick Up For Hilarious Reason LOOK: Customer Cancels Pizza Pick Up For Hilarious Reason 10 Popular Retailers With Dark Labor Histories Pfizer To Sell Viagra Online LEO W. GERARD GOP Forcibly Making Working Families Flexible The GOP forced flexibility act is part of a list of proposals House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) calls "Making Life Work." That's right, Republicans intend to make life nothing but work. No eight hours for sleep. No eight hours for anything you will. Just work, Gumby, just work. Continue reading... JARED BERNSTEIN Tax Reform: As Usual, We're Going About It All Wrong Proposed tax changes should have to stand on whether they'll a) help to raise the revenue we need to meet future challenges that are coming fast, or b) boost growth in ways that actually matter to contemporary economies. Continue reading... BHASKAR CHAKRAVORTI We Have Lost Sight of the Real Ticking Bomb on the Korean Peninsula There is, indeed, a bomb waiting to go off on the Korean Peninsula, but it is not of the Kim Jong-un's making. Seoul and its allies in the U.S. and elsewhere must give equal -- if not greater emphasis -- to the very real and complex crisis that might cause the Korean economic miracle to implode. Continue reading... DAVE JOHNSON Zero Manufacturing Jobs Added -- Zero President Obama set a goal of 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. Last month we added zero. Not one. Nada. Zip. We did add low-wage jobs, though. Maybe we can talk about a national manufacturing strategy now? Continue reading... DAVID K. LEVINE Googazon: The Web 3.0 Will the next Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds or Jimmy Wales please step forward? Because I don't want information at my fingertips -- I want action at my fingertips, and I mean my fingertips. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003