by Bill Scher | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
BREAKING: Job Growth Weakens In March Monthly net new jobs drops below 200,000. NYT: "The labor market’s yearlong streak of robust monthly job creation was broken on Friday with the Labor Department’s report that employers added just 126,000 workers in March, a marked...
by Bill Scher | Apr 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
McDonald's Offers 89 Cents McDonald's raises its minimum wage, sort of. W. Post: "McDonald's will raise its minimum wage to an average of $9.90 by July 1, up from $9.01, in advance of a planned wave of strikes on April 15 ... The move will cover roughly 90,000 people...
by Bill Scher | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Climate
The United States made one of the first pledges to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Other countries will follow suit over the next few months, setting the stage for an international climate agreement in December, in which nations would pursue...
by Bill Scher | Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Republican Anti-Gay Push Met With Corporate Backlash Walmart calls on Arkansas governor to veto anti-gay "religious freedom" bill. Fortune: "[Walmart's CEO] said that the legislation, 'threatens to undermine the spirit of inclusion present throughout the state of...
by Bill Scher | Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Fast-Food Worker Movement Aims High "[T]he fast-food movement’s next big wave of protests ... is now scheduled for April 15" reports NYT: "...the organizers hope[ to] turn the fast-food workers’ fight for a $15 hourly wage into a broad national movement of all...