by Richard Eskow | Apr 21, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They'd have us believe that minimum-wage workers are teens from '50s TV sitcoms working down at the local malt shoppe....
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The Walton (Walmart) heirs now have as much wealth as up to 40 percent of all Americans combined, and Walmart's sales have been slowing down. What does the first fact have to do with the second? (Hint: Sign this petition for raising the minimum wage.) The top 1...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 18, 2013 | Minimum Wage
It is time – in fact, it is past time – to demand that Congress act to increase the minimum wage. This week, the effort to get Congress to act is accelerating. As of late Wednesday, more than 15,000 people have signed a SignOn.org petition posted by the Campaign for...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 11, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The corporate/conservative effort to gut the country's labor-law enforcement continues at full steam. Senate Republicans are blocking NLRB Board confirmations. Republican judges blocked the the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from operating until the Senate...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 9, 2013 | Minimum Wage
As the U.S. Commerce Department released a report late last month showing corporate profits at a 60-year high, suddenly the big news was about how cheating surely must be rampant in social security disability. Wait, what? Also late last month, a Washington Post...
by Derek Pugh | Apr 5, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Sequester
Millennials – the largest, best educated, and most diverse generation in our nation’s history – have one question for Democrats seeking election in 2014: Do your values really reflect ours? Democrats have reason to worry about what the answer would be from the 80...
