by Robert Borosage | Jan 29, 2014 | Blog
In a State of the Union address that lasted over an hour, President Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage, announced he would act immediately by issuing an executive order to lift the lowest wages of government contract workers, and urged companies to...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
President Obama will announce tonight that he is delivering a big raise to more than a million low-wage employees of federal contractors. He is issuing an executive order that will require workers under new contracts to be paid a minimum of $10.10 an hour (or higher...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
You hear often that we "live in a global world now." You hear that "globalization" means we have to drop our wages and standards to match those in impoverished, Third-World countries. You hear that the "cost" of controlling pollution makes us uncompetitive in the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 24, 2014 | Blog
What do you give a Wall Street CEO who has presided over a decade of fraud and criminality, who directly supervised a unit which lost $6 billion through incompetent and illegal trading, and whose reign of crime and mismanagement has cost his institution $20 billion in...
by Bill Scher | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
If Mike Huckabee ever wants to meet Uncle Sugar, he need only look in the mirror. Earlier today, Huckabee invented quite the straw man in the not-so-controversial debate over the Obamacare provision requiring health insurers to cover contraception: "If the Democrats...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog
Republicans voted for a budget that caved in to many of their economy-sabotaging, hostage-ransom austerity demands. Now the "debt ceiling" has to be raised in February so the government can pay for that budget that Republicans voted for. Republicans are saying no way...
