by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 18, 2013 | Minimum Wage
It is time – in fact, it is past time – to demand that Congress act to increase the minimum wage. This week, the effort to get Congress to act is accelerating. As of late Wednesday, more than 15,000 people have signed a SignOn.org petition posted by the Campaign for...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 11, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The corporate/conservative effort to gut the country's labor-law enforcement continues at full steam. Senate Republicans are blocking NLRB Board confirmations. Republican judges blocked the the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from operating until the Senate...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 11, 2013 | Chained CPI
The "chained CPI" proposal in President Obama's budget continues to draw much-deserved fire, which is only likely to increase as more information about it becomes known. Here are ten embarrassing facts about the chained CPI which the White House and its defenders...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 11, 2013 | Chained CPI
The White House is clearly struggling to save its budget’s “chained CPI” proposal in the face of powerful opposition from across the political spectrum. There's confusion surrounding their latest move, a “bump” that would slightly mitigate its effect for people who...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 10, 2013 | Chained CPI
That was fast. Yesterday we suggested that the chained-CPI cut in President Obama's budget, which was presented as a gesture to Republicans, might instead be used to rebrand Democrats as "the anti-Social Security party." It took them fifteen minutes. A GOP official...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 10, 2013 | The Sequester
Today, the president releases his budget for fiscal year 2014, the year that begins this October. Commentators and advocates will pour over its disparate parts, although the White House has already leaked its major contours. This document is less a budget for...
