by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Every three years, America’s Federal Reserve Board surveys just how well the nation’s families are doing economically. The Fed takes this surveying seriously. We’re not talking quickie public opinion polling here, several hundred dinner-time phone calls that last a...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 5, 2014 | Economy, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
At Michael Brown’s funeral, Rev. Al Sharpton lamented that America has “money to give military equipment to police forces,” but not to train and employ young people. Sen. Bernie Sanders is making good on a promise to remedy that. While eulogizing Brown, Sharpton...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 4, 2014 | Economy, Jobs and Growth
The fast-food strikes are back, and bigger than ever. Today, workers in 150 cities will take to the streets to demand livable wages for themselves and their families, the right to organize, and a better economy for all of us. Last year, low-wage workers in over 60...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2014 | Economy, Jobs and Growth
A study from Labor and Employment Relations professor Robert Bruno of the University of Illinois-Urbana and policy director of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute Frank Manzo IV showed that states with anti-union "right-to-work" laws have lower tax revenue, and...
by Dean Baker | Sep 2, 2014 | Economy
In recent decades the news for the country’s workers and the labor movement has been mostly bad. We’ve seen stagnant wages, declining unionization rates, anti-union court rulings, and for the last six years mass unemployment as the labor market is still far from...
by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Sep 2, 2014 | Economy
Think your money's not going very far this year? It's not your imagination. According to new research by the Economic Policy Institute, real hourly wages declined for almost everybody in the U.S. workforce in the first half of 2014. Thanks, so-called recovery....
