by Terrance Heath | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
As I wrote yesterday, at this point it no longer matters whether or not Mitt Romney takes the positions he does because he truly believes they are right or to satisfy conservatives in his party. The right-wingers who own his party will demand his fealty, if Romney...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 6, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In January I called attention to the work of our former colleague Anne Thompson, who captured video of presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying that he supported ensuring that the minimum wage kept pace with inflation. "My view has been to allow the minimum wage to...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. The story of organized labor has been a story of working people banding together to confront concentrated wealth and power. Unions...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 12, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
GOP White House hopefuls want taxes on the rich cut even lower than they've already been cut. What might a tax-the-rich-even-less future bring? The land of the kiwi offers one frightful answer. Where in the developed world do rich people pay the least in taxes? To...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 10, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Producers" and "parasites." Cruel language justifying extreme greed seems to be mainstream now. Even Presidential candidates feel free to disparage 99% of us! In today's right-wing folklore government by We, the People is an evil thing that takes from "producers" and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
On Wednesday the House voted to extend a two-year federal worker pay freeze an additional year. These workers, instead of getting a raise at the end of 2012, will have to wait until the end of 2013. (The House vote and our analysis is posted on our sister site,...
