MayDay Around The World, Walmart's Patriotic Pledge, Key Obama Decision And More

May 1, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Low-Paid Workers Rally On May Day JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of low-paid workers are rallying in the streets on May Day to demand better pay and improved working conditions a week after a Bangladesh building collapse that was a grim reminder of how lax safety regulations make work a danger in poor countries. Laborers in Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Turkey and other countries marched and chanted en masse Wednesday. They sounded complaints about being squeezed by big business amid the surging cost of living. Continue reading... Obama To Nominate Longtime Congressman For Key Job Bankers Explain How They Cannot Possibly Live On $1 Million Pay Walmart CEO Announces Patriotic Pledge Benetton Revises Stance After Photo Links Brand To Deadly Factory Collapse Judge's Ruling Against Nipple 'Pasties' For Strippers Is HILARIOUS Judge's Ruling Against Nipple 'Pasties' For Strippers Is HILARIOUS CEO-To-Worker Pay Ratio Ballooned 1,000 Percent Since 1950! Man Dies After Falling Into Meat Blender JONAH BERGER Avoiding Decision Quicksand We often get sucked into trivial decisions. Here are 3 ways to avoid this painful phenomenon. Continue reading... ROBERT REICH Public Debt and Economic Growth Reinhart and Rogoff seem to be correct in one basic respect: Economic growth does seem to be lower in very-high-debt countries. But the entire debate over their paper's flaws begs the central question of cause and effect. Is growth lower because of the high debt? Or does cause-and-effect the other way around? Continue reading... MIKE BERMAN How the NFL Is America's Business The NFL vividly illustrates that core operating philosophies blended with deep strategic conviction will translate to superior execution and sustained results than businesses always searching for the next way to reinvent themselves do. Continue reading... ROBERT WALKER Egypt: Too Big, Too Late to Save? With the world's attention riveted on war-torn Syria, far too little attention has been focused on Egypt's economic woes and their long-term implications for the region. Continue reading... DAVID SABLE The Future Rests on Legacy Do you subscribe to the notion that nothing that is old is worth knowing and that only the new -- the bright and shiny -- is valuable? 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