by Richard Long | Apr 29, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
As the National Restaurant Association prepared for its annual lobbying days inside the Capitol this week, more than a thousand grassroots activists went to the Capitol on Monday to demand that the voice of workers and their demand for a fairer economy that works for...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play — at our expense. And big oil giants like ExxonMobil have been outraging Americans for years. But plenty of other corporate giants that inflate our inequality...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 22, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Unemployment Benefits
A few days ago you were able to virtually shut down the phones at House Speaker John Boehner's office in response to our effort to get your voice heard on renewing unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless. It's time to do it again. Our click-to-call line is...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 10, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog, Jobs and Growth
As expected, the Congressional Progressive Caucus' "Better Off Budget" was defeated on the House floor Wednesday, picking up only 89 Democratic votes and none from Republicans. But that vote does not end the fight for the priorities and values that budget document...
by Bill Scher | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog, Unemployment Benefits
Finally, a hard-fought compromise to temporarily reinstate unemployment insurance benefits to the long-term unemployed cleared the Senate, with six Republicans joining a unanimous Democratic caucus. With nearly 3 million jobless desperately needing the renewal of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 8, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
[fve]http://youtu.be/iAAJKKZOqDk[/fve] So what if big-box retailer Costco already pays its workers well above the minimum wage, the rhetoric from the crowd opposing a minimum wage increase goes. Costco is a special case, they say, with a business model and sales...
