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• Walmart orders underpaid staff to cough up for new uniforms. Is it legal?

  11 Sep 2014: Walmart – owned by the billionaire Walton family – has imposed a new ‘dress code’ that requires employees to buy new collared shirts and khaki pants

• Becoming a financial adult used to be measured in joy. Now it's measured in hardship and stress

  11 Sep 2014: With marriage, kids and a house increasingly elusive, we asked readers for their other financial benchmarks

• Why do you have to buy an iPhone 6 to get a working digital wallet? Think different

  10 Sep 2014: Apple’s new payments system seems promising, but why is it limited only to the elite? The postal service can serve everyone, writes David Dayen
  

• Deportation and depression: 'It would be sad if she goes to Mexico and commits suicide there'

  9 Sep 2014: Suicide attempts and mental health crises define experiences of young migrants fighting to resolve their legal status in America

• Were fast-food workers paid to strike and protest?

  8 Sep 2014: McDonald’s says protesters were paid to walk off the job, which strikers say is a corruption of the fact that unions pay arrest fines

• Amazon's tantrum over books cost me $212 at a real bookstore

  7 Sep 2014: I paid $99 for an Amazon Prime membership, but the company’s standoff with Hachette over ebooks forced me to spend more at bookstores to get the selection I needed, writes Suzanne McGee
  

• Bratton-style policing means more fines and arrests for black residents of Detroit

  7 Sep 2014: Detroit’s gentrified makeover means more policing of nuisance crimes – but the fines fall disproportionately on black residents
  

• US employment payrolls drop because of strikes at one supermarket chain

  5 Sep 2014: Market Basket’s troubled summer shows how regional drama affects lower job growth across the whole US

• Do fast-food strikes actually work?

  4 Sep 2014: Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership
  

• US lags Canada and UK in pay and wages for fast-food workers

  4 Sep 2014: Burger King’s plans to merge with Tim Hortons show how the stark differences of how workers are treated in the US, UK and Canada

• The cost of contraception: the birth control methods your health insurance covers

  2 Sep 2014: The Hobby Lobby case created bewilderment around birth control, used by 99% of American women of childbearing age. We explain how the ruling affects you
  

• Market Basket's popular CEO Arthur T goes rogue and wins – now what?

  28 Aug 2014: Arthur T Demoulas has won a bitter battle for control. Now he must restock the shelves, win back the vendors, woo the customers and please the private equity overlords

• You can try to be the next Hemingway -- for $6,000

  28 Aug 2014: Self-publishing has made it possible to get your writing out in the world. But it hasn’t made it cheap
  

• To recline or not to recline: which side are you on?

  27 Aug 2014: From LMFAO to regular Joes, passenger frequently fight over their right to recline. But isn’t that what a ticket price is for?
  

• A tale of two Brooklyns: there's more to my borough than hipsters and coffee

  27 Aug 2014: Forget the yuppies and their real estate ills. There’s a whole economic mix in Brooklyn that gets completely ignored

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