by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 24, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Nancy Salgado has been working at McDonald's in Chicago for 10 years, and for that whole time she has been working at Illinois' minimum wage, now $8.25 an hour. As a mother with two young children, that puts her below the poverty line of $19,530. McDonald's says it...
by Emily Foster | Oct 23, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Members from the House Democratic Caucus on Wednesday joined with Wal-Mart employees at a forum to challenge Wal-Mart to pay its workers a living wage. While Wal-Mart averages a profit of about $1.8 million per hour, its wages are so low that in Wisconsin, taxpayers...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 17, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Retirement Security, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Remember in 2009, when Jim DeMint said health care reform would be President Obama's Waterloo? Four years later, defunding health care reform became the GOP's Alamo. But Republicans aren't done damaging their party, or the rest of the country, yet. Not by a long shot....
by Derek Pugh | Oct 16, 2013 | Minimum Wage
A new report from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley estimates that low-wage jobs in the fast-food sector are costing American taxpayers nearly $7 billion every year. The report—Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 16, 2013 | Conservatism, Shutdown
Tea Party Republican extremism has already taken a bite of as much as $31 billion out of the economy since October 1, according to Wall Street analysts. And the price tag is about to get much higher now that the recalcitrants in the House of Representatives have...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 15, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, Shutdown
In the early days, the iconic image of D.C.-hating Tea Partiers was a sign reading: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.” Occasionally their protest placards added a little profanity to that directive. Right now, though, Tea Partiers should be cursing their...
