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Fast Track Heads To Senate Floor Senate Finance Committee passes fast track bill. The Hill: "The panel approved, on an 20-6 vote, a long-awaited trade promotion authority (TPA) measure with the support of seven Democrats ... Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Debbie...
Government Sweatshops: A Time for the President to Act
The federal government is the leading generator of low-wage jobs in America. Now those workers are calling on the president to step up and use his pen to lift workers up, not drive them down.
Government Contract Workers Strike For Better Pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Progressive Caucus members stand with low-wage government contract workers, saying that taxpayer-paid contractors should pay workers a living wage.
Study: "Right-To-Work" Lowers Wages
A new reports confirms that "right-to-work" laws are really about employers' to "right" make their employees work for lower wages, and not about protecting workers rights.
Will Marriage Equality Opponents Take Us Back To The "Green Book" Era?
As the Supreme Court takes up marriage equality again, conservatives are preparing for a likely landmark ruling by trying to bring back a phrase that once haunted black families: "We don't serve your kind here."
Here Is Proof That Conservatives Actually Hate Markets
Given a choice between the market law of supply and demand and their hatred of our government, conservatives choose hatred of government over free markets every time.
Progressive Breakfast
Obama v. Warren Over TPP Obama criticizes Warren on TPP during MSNBC interview. Time quotes: "We’re allies on a whole host of issues. But she’s wrong on this ... [She] is out there saying things like this about the trade agreement: ‘It’s going to help the rich get...
The Surprise Issue of the 2016 Election?
Will Hillary Clinton embrace her party's growing call to increase Social Security benefits? It's not an extreme idea, or even a particularly “leftist” one. In fact, it was a key part of the Republican platform – in 1956.
Low-Wage Federal Contractors To Strike Wednesday
Through privatization and contracting the U.S. Government has become the country's biggest low-wage job creator, funding over 2 million poverty jobs.
'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' Demands $15 an Hour
Signing the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act into law, FDR rightly said “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages has any right to continue in this country.” Let's make it so.
