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Vagueness from the Fed, the Sony cancellation, and farmworkers use tech for better wages.

The day after the guardians of interest rates at the Federal Reserve issued a statement that would get demerits for vagueness from any freshman English professor. And we could see more information from the U.S. government as early as today about who hacked the computers of Sony Pictures, leading to the mass release of internal company emaisl and, now, the cancellation of the release of the movie at the center of this. That movie, titlted The Interview, is a comedy about a plot against the North Korean leader. In the last 24 hours, a unnamed U.S. official has been suggesting the hack may have started in North Korea. Plus, when you think of negotiating for higher pay, the people who work hard picking apples and cherries aren’t the first folks who come to mind with the clout to drive up compensation. Individual farmworkers don’t control much about their work environment. But in Washington’s Yakima Valley, growers and workers alike say the growing use of cell phones has shaken up the labor market.

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