by Leo Gerard | Feb 12, 2013 | Minimum Wage
President Obama demonstrated his gutsiness in recent months by speaking so many words that craven politicians contend cannot be spoken. These are hot-button words like same sex-marriage, immigration reform, gun control and climate change. Fighting words. The president...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 10, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
The president will stand before Congress for his State of the Union address as the leader of an emerging progressive majority coalition that he has helped to forge. Empowered by that coalition, he has already teed up an ambitious agenda: comprehensive immigration...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 10, 2013 | Minimum Wage
You are probably hearing that the Post Office is "in crisis" and is cutting back Saturday delivery, laying people off, closing offices, etc. Like so many other "crises" imposed on us lately, there is a lot to the story that you are not hearing from the "mainstream"...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 5, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Oscar came to the United States at the age of 16 to work. There were no jobs for him in his native Guatemala, and he felt obligated to help support his parents. He was lured across borders by the promise of work. He believed, as so many immigrants do, that there would...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 28, 2013 | Minimum Wage, The Sequester
The United States is in the midst of the most protracted unemployment crisis in modern history, and for vast segments of the population, the recession has never ended. Wages are still sinking; more than 20 million people are in need of full-time work. Yet, the...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 17, 2013 | Minimum Wage
F. Scott Fitzgerald warned, "There are no second acts in American lives." And for recent American presidents, second acts have been brutal. The hope of the first act succumbs to the karmic reckonings of the second. Nixon cast out by his crimes in Watergate. Reagan...
