by Roger Hickey | Mar 17, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Minimum Wage
Every American who cares about jobs and a healthy U.S. economy should pick up the phone right now, call your Congressperson’s office, and tell whoever answers, “I want my representative to vote this week for the Back to Work Budget introduced by the Congressional...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 12, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
Buried in the "pleasant surprise" (NPR) of Friday's "stunning" (USAToday) February jobs report were some numbers that better-reflect the reality of America's declining middle class. Things are pretty bad when you call 7.7% -- and that due to people giving up on...
by Richard Long | Mar 5, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The news just keeps getting better for the millions of Americans making minimum wage. Today, three weeks to the day after President Obama called for raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour in the State of the Union address, two congressional Democrats have done him one...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 5, 2013 | Minimum Wage
The invisible hand of the market, which the GOP worships as an infallible god, is curled into a fist and is pounding America’s lowest-paid workers. Those workers have complained about the grinding poverty level of minimum wage. Wal-Mart warehouse workers and New York...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 5, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
Today, Senator Tom Harkin and Representative George Miller offer a ray of light amid the austerity blight in Washington. They are announcing introduction of a bill – the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 – to raise the minimum wage gradually to $10.10 and index it so it...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 1, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Sequester
Someone asked the Master about the principles of … traveling into the vast inane. – From the Bao Pu Zi, AD 320, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China Welcome to the vast inane. Today the “sequester” – mindless, across the board cuts of military and...
