by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 21, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
You may not agree, as Sara Robinson provocatively suggests, that the country is primed for revolution. But there is no doubt that large numbers of middle-class people are mad, really mad, about the damage Bush-league conservatism has done to the country and to their...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 20, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." — John F. Kennedy There's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual. The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the...
by Eric Lotke | Aug 30, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It’s Labor Day and Congress is coming back into session. Time to step back to see where things stand, and what Congress can do about it. Start with the state of working America. It’s Labor Day after all, a holiday earned by organized labor and dedicated to working...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 23, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
With all of the talk about the conservative obstructionism in Congress that is keeping important bills from becoming law, Tuesday brings something worth celebrating: The federal minimum wage, which had been frozen at $5.15 an hour for almost 10 years, increases 70...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 29, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Americans elected a new Congress to get things done. But the conservative minority has chosen a strategy of obstruction in the Senate. They have used the threat of a filibuster to delay or block virtually every major initiative. Bills with majority support—raising the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 25, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In little more than a decade after President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty,” President Ronald Reagan led the nation in the equivalent of a helicopter evacuation from the epicenter of the fight. Reagan and his band of conservatives also so...
