by Joshua Holland | Oct 4, 2013 | Conservatism, Current Issues, Economy, Minimum Wage, Shutdown
Forget About the Tourists, Worry About the Workers (via Moyers & Company) The government shutdown is revealing how easily distracted we are by shiny objects. An enormous amount of ink has been devoted to the closure of the World War II Memorial. Tourist sites –...
by Joshua Holland | Sep 6, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back (via Moyers & Company) After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s...
by Joshua Holland | Sep 3, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, Shutdown
This summer’s heated battles over the implementation of “Obamacare” are a microcosm of a much larger and longstanding ideological clash over the role of the government in society. The hard-right is taking a scorched-earth approach, obstructing the law’s implementation...