by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 23, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The floor is falling out from under workers. The federal minimum wage is not enough for a full-time worker to lift a family of three out of poverty. That is not right. The minimum wage for tipped workers – a miserly $2.13 an hour – hasn’t been raised in two decades....
by Terrance Heath | Jul 19, 2013 | Minimum Wage
This summer, in major cities like New York, Seattle, Washington DC, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis, thousands of workers have taken to the streets protest workplace abuse, poor working conditions, and wage theft. But most of all workers across the country...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 19, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Marie Antoinette, meet Ronald McDonald. A lot of people are angry about McDonald's new financial advice website for employees, an ill-conceived project which drips with "let them eat cake" insouciance. "Every dollar makes a difference," McDonald's lectures its...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 11, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Progressives won a victory in Washington this week when the D.C. City Council stood up to Walmart and passed a bill that would require the retailer, and other nonunion big-box retailers, to pay their employees a $12.50 minimum wage. Walmart promptly announced that it...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 21, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The minimum wage has not been raised in forever – more and more people are falling behind. A few are getting fabulously wealthy from this arrangement. The Progressive Caucus held a Netroots Nation event today to launch the kickoff of their “Raise Up America” Campaign....
by Robert Borosage | Jun 20, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Can the economy recover if workers don't? Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke yesterday suggested as much, but investors were clearly skittish. Bernanke announced that while the Fed would continue its extraordinary measures to prop up the economy, the end might be in...