AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Working More, Getting Paid Less Productivity rose 8.1 percent in the third quarter, the largest gain since 2003, as employers pile more on their staff. Meanwhile, pay is stagnating and worker stress increasing because of the larger workloads and the constant fear of being thrown out of a job to join the more than 15 million workers officially unemployed.

10 Greediest People of 2009 | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet As ordinary Americans reel from the Great Recession, these gluttonous all-stars continue to claw in absurd amounts of money.

Gov. Charlie Crist aide departing to be Chamber chief - Florida - MiamiHerald.com A high-ranking state economic development official is leaving his post to become chief of the Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Matt Reed: Posey pushes funds, then votes them down | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY Here's one to chew on: U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, joined Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach, in securing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal earmarks for Space Coast projects. Then, Posey joined all 174 other House Republicans and voted against the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, giving a conservative-looking thumbs-down . . . to his own projects

Health plans on collision course - - POLITICO.com
Despite a last-minute weekend deal that put the Senate on the brink of passing health care reform this week, liberal and moderate Democrats remain on a collision course over the bill, as both sides dug in Sunday for the next phase of negotiations.

In Two Days Time, Health Care Reform Went From Uncertain, To A Foregone Conclusion At sundown on Friday, Democrats didn't have a lock on health care reform. That changed late Friday night over a handshake between Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. On Saturday, Reid signaled his confidence that his party was unified and ready to move forward by drawing the amendment process to a close and committing the Senate to voting on his bill.

Just Who Are Those Florida Swing Voters? A Closer Look at No Party Affiliation (NPA) Registrants and Self-Proclaimed Independents

Jobs outlook not expected to improve until second quarter | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee DemocratFlorida's unemployment rate rose last month to 11.5 percent, within a half-point of a state record, the state announced Friday. Rebecca Rust, chief economist for the Agency for Workforce Innovation, said the jobs picture isn't expected to improve until the second quarter of next year. Loss of construction work continued to spur the rising jobless rate, while employment in the Tallahassee and Gainesville areas was bouyed by government work rolls

PolitiFact | Rove says Obama's approval ratings after a year are worst of any president President Obama has "the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year."

PolitiFact | And the runners-up ... PolitiFact readers overwhelming chose Sarah Palin's claim that the health care bill contains "death panels" as Lie of the Year. A resounding 61 percent of our 4,864 voters picked death panels as the top lie. No other finalist in the field of eight statements