by Tula Connell | Aug 11, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
They may be party animals when chugging $8,204 worth of booze but, after the hangover is over, the staff at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce goes back to being their ugly anti-worker selves. Seems that some 100 or so Chamber of Commerce staff recently ran up an $8,204 tab...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 24, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The second of three annual minimum-wage increases enacted by Congress goes into effect today, raising the wage floor to $6.55 an hour. Late Wednesday the Campaign for America's Future focused on this positive development for workers in its latest issue alert. As we...
by Tula Connell | Jul 2, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet. Sen. John McCain colors his solution to working families' financial struggles with similar crayons: He...
by Terrance Heath | May 21, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Living in D.C., you can't help; crossing paths with some famous political names. In fact, you get used to it. But, as with most things, you never forget your first. And Ted Kennedy was my first. I was still new to D.C., having moved up from Georgia in the Summer of...
by Tula Connell | Apr 15, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year. But supporters of Bush's drive to ram the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 2, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
“You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to hell because he didn't see the poor. … And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell, if we don't use her wealth. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to...
