by Jeff Bryant | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Education, Winning Issues for 2014
Political pundits who try to tamp down talk of divisions within the Democratic Party must not be paying any attention to education policy. For quite some time, close observers of the nation's education policy have been calling attention to the fault lines between...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 8, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Fast food CEO Andy Puzder says that raising the minimum wage will harm workers and kill job growth. A new study of the 13 states that have tried it – including eight states where Puzder runs restaurants – says otherwise. Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, told...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 11, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
More than 3 million hardworking Americans have lost their emergency unemployment benefits, since House Republicans allowed the program to expire. Witness Wednesdays is bringing some of those voices to Washington. Will the GOP listen? Activists and members of Congress...
by Sarah Anderson | Jun 4, 2014 | Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
By Sarah Anderson and Frank Clemente Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a hit. The cutbacks ate into the discount giant’s sales because so many of its low-income customers rely on this...
by Rev. William Barber | Jun 3, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Recently, I marched with McDonald's workers from three dozen cities to the company's corporate headquarters outside of Chicago. After they refused to leave the corporate campus of the fast-food giant with its $5.6 billion in profits last year, 101 workers were...
by Dave Johnson | May 12, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
The country needs jobs. The country needs to start fixing up its crumbling infrastructure. The country doesn't need more corporate tax breaks. Guess which of these three is in legislation the House is passing – unfortunately with help from many Democrats. If this...
