Dean Foods Co. purchased a smaller dairy company [Foremost] in Wisconsin to quash competition and drive up milk prices.
"purpose of the department's lawsuit is to restore competition so that schools, grocery stores and other retailers in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, will pay lower prices for their milk."
Click on the following for more details: Daily Herald | Feds file antitrust suit against Dean Foods
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Businessman, Jack Roeser of http://www.championnews.net, famous for publishing teachers/administrators salaries of schools across the state has been caught making some outlandish remarks.
you insist upon employing outrage, innuendo, screaming and fear as your primary political tools, at some point, it will come around to bite you in the butt. And some Republicans, like Carpentersville businessman Jack Roeser, are looking to repair their pants, because that bite just came in the form of some "interesting" local radio commercials produced by Illinois GOP U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin.
Click on the following to read the entire article: Words can come back to haunt GOP :: The Courier News :: Town Talk
Arkansas.Nevada.Pennsylvania.Colorado.Delaware.
Bonus Extra. Unlike the five states listed above, North Dakota has a seat in play this fall that is almost certain to switch sides
Click on the following for more details: Five states where GOP might pull another Brown / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
Illinois hasn't seen unemployment this high since 1983.
Illinois' jobless rate rebounded past 11 percent in December, rising 0.2 percent to 11.1 percent
Click on the following for more details: Northwest Herald | State jobless rate back over 11 percent
first time in American history, a majority of union members are government workers rather than private-sector employees, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday.
in 2009 that the 7.9 million unionized public-sector workers easily outnumbered those in the private sector, where labor’s ranks shrank to 7.4 million, from 8.2 million in 2008.
7.2 percent of private-sector workers were union members last year, down from 7.6 percent the previous year. That, labor historians said, was the lowest percentage of private-sector workers in unions since 1900. ….Among government workers, union membership grew to 37.4 percent last year, from 36.8 percent in 2008.
