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- Investors have still not dismissed the possibility of a Eurozone breakup. [CNN Money]
- A major pension fund has blacklisted Walmart, “citing poor labor practices and the company’s anti-union stance.” [Huffington Post]
- Credit card interest rates are starting 2012 at record highs. [Los Angeles Times]
- The IRS last year audited one in eight millionaires. [CNN Money]
- Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) laid out a budget yesterday that aims to tackle the Golden State’s $9 billion deficit. [Reuters]
- Indiana Democats yesterday “delayed for a second day an anti-union bill that would make Indiana the first right-to-work state in the U.S. industrial belt.” [Reuters]
- A new study finds that teachers who raise students’ test scores “seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives beyond academics.” [New York Times]
- As part of a possible foreclosure fraud settlement, investors in U.S. mortgage bonds may have to swallow losses. [Financial Times]
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