by Thom Hartmann | Dec 2, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
On Black Friday, more than 1,500 protests took place at Walmart stores around our country. Organizers reported more than 100 arrests in civil disobedience actions. The events centered around ' low wages, unethical treatment of workers, and their history of trying to...
by Digby | Dec 2, 2013 | Budget Talks, Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform
In the post below, David asks an interesting question: Trickle-down economics is a known and proven failure. The experience of record stock market highs, record corporate profits, low effective tax rates and record income inequality in the context of a stagnant...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 1, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Something is happening. It's beginning to look as if the fight for a livable minimum wage might – just might – alter our political future. Makes sense, when you think about it. The minimum wage struggle is occurring at the intersection of powerful forces. It's taking...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 28, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
At the first Thanksgiving, there was no expression of the sentiment: “I built this feast by myself.” Native Americans sat side by side with pilgrims – religious leader by huntsman, chief by planter. They shared the bounty they’d all worked to create. This Thanksgiving...
by Jeff Faux | Nov 26, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Financial Reform, Minimum Wage
The deeper you are in the inner sanctums of power, the slower you are to get disturbing news from the rest of the world. So, I suppose it should be no surprise that it has taken so long for a prominent member of the American policy elite to suggest openly to his...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 26, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Progressive Vision, Retirement Security, The Jobs Challenge, This Is The GOP
Congress is again fighting over the budget with Republicans now demanding cuts in federal employee benefits. Is this really about the budget? Or is it about destroying government? Meanwhile hundreds of billions of taxes owed by corporations remain uncollected. The...
