by Editors | Sep 11, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision
Amidst the lack of action on raising the minimum wage at the federal level, a vibrant city on the West coast has taken lead: Seattle. Just this June, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to increase the city’s minimum wage to reach $15 an hour by 2017. On...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 10, 2014 | Blog, Retirement Security, Winning Issues for 2014
A new poll confirms that voters don’t just want their Social Security benefits protected, they want them expanded – in overwhelming numbers, across geographical distances, and crossing all party lines. It’s not just “liberals” who feel that way. Three out of four...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
Investors got some great news last Friday, even as the report for job seekers was far worse than expected. August job figures came in far below economists’ expectations (which, even if reached, would have been insufficient to bring a swift end to our employment...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Winning Issues for 2014
“We’re a movement now,” fast-food worker Latoya Caldwell said Wednesday of the effort by employees in her industry to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour. That movement's latest action was a one-day strike which took place in 150 cities across the country on...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Reviving Strong Unions
[fve]http://youtu.be/zNqFTxCTCTY[/fve] Labor Day was last weekend. For the occasion we interviewed our own Robert Borosage on The Zero Hour radio program regarding his piece entitled "Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers." That piece begins as...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 2, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Reviving Strong Unions
“Hours of chaos” is how the New York Times described the work reality of more and more Americans. It highlighted Jannette Navarra, a Starbucks barista, who is regularly forced to work part-time with fluctuating hours. She usually gets her work schedule three days...
