by Michael Winship | Sep 10, 2013 | Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
In Los Angeles, Labor Redefines Itself (via Moyers & Company) “It’s time to turn America right side up!” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka exhorted those in attendance at the labor alliance’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles on Monday. Time, he said in his keynote...
by Joshua Holland | Sep 6, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back (via Moyers & Company) After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 5, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
If you're like millions of Americans, Labor Day was an actual holiday. While you enjoyed a day off, Labor Day was just another workday for many of the low-wage workers who went on strike for livable wages in over 60 cities last week. According to a survey from...
by Greg Kaufmann | Aug 30, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Minimum Wage
There is much to celebrate in marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, as Congressman John Lewis rightly noted on Wednesday. “Sometime I hear people saying nothing has changed,” said Representative Lewis, “but for someone to...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 29, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Unfinished March
Update: This morning, I wrote that fast food workers were expected to walk off their jobs in 35 cities today. They've done way more than that. Fast food workers in 60 cities walked off the job today, in the biggest strike ever to hit the $200 billion dollar fast food...
by Martha Burk | Jul 24, 2013 | Minimum Wage
As of today, it's been four years since the last increase in the federal minimum wage, to $7.25 per hour, or $15,000 per year for full-time work. In the lead-up to this anniversary, CEPR has released four blog posts with infographics that illustrate many different...