by Bill Scher | Feb 3, 2014 | Minimum Wage
[fve]http://youtu.be/UJ9eylkiVx8[/fve] Today, the Democratic National Committee's Organizing For America operation fired the first shots in the minimum wage fight, a national cable ad with the message "Congress: Give America a Raise." The ad amounts to a warning shot,...
by Derek Pugh | Jan 29, 2014 | Minimum Wage
The federal government funds more low-wage jobs than Wal-Mart and McDonalds combined. Thanks to President Obama’s announcement this week that he will sign a ‘good jobs’ executive order, this will change. “We consider this a win,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., on...
by Digby | Jan 27, 2014 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Responding to the depressing news that the administration has succumbed to elite pressure to "tone down" the rhetoric about wealth inequality, Damon Silvers, special counsel for the AFL-CIO, points out the uncomfortable truth: [T]he president faces a choice of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2014 | Minimum Wage
This post originally appeared at AlterNet. If the 1968 federal minimum wage had kept pace with inflation it would be $10.75 today. But it is only $7.25, an amount so low that many full-time workers need such government assistance as food stamps and Medicare just to...
by Thom Hartmann | Jan 22, 2014 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. According to a new report from Oxfam, 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. This...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 23, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Minimum Wage, The Sequester, This Is The GOP
From the second inauguration of Barack Obama to the latest skirmish in the “War on Christmas,” a steady stream of outrageousness flowed from the American right this year. Here are the best of the worst of the right-wing in 2013. The Confederate Battle Flag In Front...
