by Leo Gerard | Jul 24, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar’s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 7, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
To rescue the global economy from reckless power suits, we just may need a 'maximum wage.' So say Australia’s top labor leaders and a fairly daring cohort of MPs in the UK. By Sam Pizzigati You don’t need to be particularly bold, not these days, to blame...
by Eric Lotke | May 27, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The wind is at our backs. The media still calls America a “center-right” nation, but “center-left” is closer to the truth. On issues ranging from health care to energy, the public is more progressive than people think. Demographic groups from youth to Hispanics are...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 13, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
As President Bush and conservative leaders were still touting the "soundness" of the economy in 2007, trends among the working poor were already beginning to tell a different story. After two years of declines in the number of people characterized as "poor" despite...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 19, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Every once in a while, an idea gels in my head and I dismiss it, thinking to myself "Nah. I gotta be missing something. It can't be that. And then I hear someone who probably knows a lot more than I do about the subject at hand say pretty much what I'd been thinking...
by Sara Robinson | Nov 25, 2008 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage, Rick Perlstein
Oh, Lordy. It is that time again. Thursday is Thanksgiving— the official kickoff event of the 2008 holiday season. For a lot of progressives, these festivities also mean that we're about to spend more quality time with our conservative relatives over the next six...
