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How Los Angeles Is Showing the Nation How to Reduce Poverty
Los Angeles is an example of what a living wage could do for the entire nation. At the Economic Policy Institute, advocates for raising the minimum wage met to discuss why national action is necessary.
Progressive Breakfast
NSA Talkathon May Upend Fast Track Sen. Rand Paul's marathon speech on NSA complicates fast track vote. Politico: "A vote on the trade bill is locked in on Thursday, though Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Paul’s theatrical speech 'doesn’t help us on...
Not Lovin’ It: Thousands Storm McDonald’s HQ To Protest Low Wages
In the largest protest of its kind, thousands of McDonald’s employees stormed the company’s headquarters today to demand that it stop spending millions manipulating stock prices and start paying workers a living wage.
Unprecedented Coalition Leads To Progressive Wins In Philadelphia
Progressive mayoral candidate Jim Kenney and City Council candidate Helen Gym prepare to join the ranks of city leaders in the vanguard of progressive change in the cities.
URGENT – Senate Debating Fast Track Now: Call Your Senators
Call your senators today and tell them to support critical amendments and against fast track trade authority. Congress should not preapprove massive trade agreements that the public is not allowed to see.
Progressive Breakfast
Iowa Working Families Summit Sends Message Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen says Iowa Working Families Summit sent message to '16ers: "We were labor and green, students and seniors, farmers and community organizers, urban and rural, immigrants...
Los Angeles Goes to $15 Minimum Wage
The City of Angels is rising, voting to lift its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. This is entirely a victory of the workers who led the fight and the community groups that joined the struggle.
The Left Matters – Now, More Than Ever
The left is important because it holds the key to energizing disaffected voters across the political spectrum – the voters who believe that neither political party is speaking to their most deeply-felt needs.
A Robin Hood Tax To Pay for College for All
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces bills that would allow every public college and university in the United States to offer free tuition, paid for with a small tax on financial transactions.
McDonald's' Workers Protest Share Buyback Scheme
This week McDonald's cooks and cashiers will be joined by clergy members at the company's shareholder meeting to call on McDonald’s to invest in the company and its workers instead of wealthy hedge fund executives.
