Retailers Use Databases to Track and Exclude Workers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 3, 2013 Retailers across the country have created a database of workers accused of stealing and are using the information to deprive those people of jobs. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Target Knows Your Secrets

Staff / Truthdig Feb 17, 2012 Decades of neuropsychology research have given Target the ability to predict customers’ shopping habits with increasing precision. The company’s statistical team can even tell when shoppers are likely to be in their second trimester of pregnancy. Combined with aggressive marketing tactics, such powers promise to add millions to its already swollen revenues. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Big Ad Man on Campus

Staff / Truthdig Sep 11, 2011 American corporations are pushing the use of peer pressure to sell products to a new level as they hire roughly 10,000 college students around the country to work as brand ambassadors to their friends and acquaintances this year. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What We Have Here Is a Failure to Compensate

Staff / Truthdig Jul 24, 2011 At a time of record unemployment, American companies are increasingly exploiting the low-cost labor of 23 million Americans behind bars This means fewer jobs available for free citizens, which leads to more unemployment, which produces more crime (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lady Gaga Takes Target to Task for Little LGBT Monsters

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2011 So, Lady Gaga struck a deal with Target to release a special version of her new album, "Born This Way," which rankled some of her core devotees, as the retail giant had made a supersized slip-up in the political arena with contributions to a political action committee . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Right Pushes Back About Rhetoric’s Role in Arizona Shooting

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2011 Is it wrong to make connections between the charged political climate in the U.S., stoked by divisive rhetoric, and the deadly shooting last weekend in Arizona? Some right-leaning politicians and pundits are saying so. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 The official anti-terrorism database is so flawed that it lists 8,591 potential terrorism targets in Indiana--50% more than in New York and twice as many as in California. Examples: "Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory and the Mule Day Parade." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Former Top Bush Aide Accused of Refund Scam

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2006 The president's former top domestic policy aide allegedly tried to swindle Target and Hecht's stores out of more than $5,000. He resigned last month, claiming he wanted to spend more time with his family. (In some parts of the world, that's called a lie.) This is the guy LA Weekly called "a notorious homophobe, a ferocious enemy of abortion and an opponent of safe-sex education." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )