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The Real Living Wage? $17.28 An Hour – At Least
For people paying off student debt, the minimum living wage nationally is close to $19 an hour, according to a report released Tuesday by People's Action Institute. No state is close, which is why so many families are struggling.
Tom Hayden, 1939-2016: A Life of Words and Action
Tom Hayden showed us that thought and action were not incompatible. He showed us that an awareness of the past could enrich and deepen our engagement with the present and enrich our dreams for the future.
Voting Rights Win for NV Indians Has Implications Beyond November
Many Native Americans living on reservations do not have reasonable voting access. A big win was notched in Nevada that will help ensure a fair vote, just in time for an Election Day with control of the White House and Senate on the line.
Progressive Breakfast
TPP 2.0? Tim Kaine discusses possibility of a TPP alternative, in NBC "Meet The Press" interview: "Hillary and I haven't talked about that question directly, Chuck. But look, we aren't against trade. We want to find export markets for American businesses because...
The Better Business Bureau Downgraded Wells Fargo. It's Not Enough.
What took so long? If we judged big banks by the same standards we apply to auto body shops or dry cleaners, they'd have all been discredited long time ago.
#NastyWomenVote
In a campaign where last straws come almost daily, it’s hard to say if “nasty woman” is the final one for women voters. But it won’t matter. The Waylon Jennings song says it all: "She’s Gone, Gone, Gone. Cryin’ won’t bring her back."
Small Business Owners Take To The Letters Page To Take On Trump
Members of the Main Street Alliance, the coalition of socially responsible small business owners, have been speaking out against Donald Trump in the letters pages of their area newspapers.
An Anthropology of the Luxury Life?
Social scientists are starting to place the lives of the wealthy under the same microscope formerly trained on primitive tribes in Borneo. Could their research ever help us understand phenomena like the ugliness of the Donald?
Progressive Breakfast
Hillary Faces New Tensions With Left "WikiLeaks poisons Hillary’s relationship with left" reports Politico: "Liberal groups and activists are assembling opposition research-style dossiers of the most dismissive comments in the WikiLeaks emails about icons of their...
Watch Out For The Coming Corporate Tax-Break Trickery
Just make the giant, tax-dodging, multinational corporations pay what they owe. Don't reward them for tax-dodging. Then we can have good schools and roads and health care and more.
