by Richard Eskow | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Fire all the janitors and make poor kids clean their schools? Zap Korea with an airborne superlaser that's never worked during testing? Ignore global warming and plan to re-engineer the entire planet with untested technology instead? People like Maureen Dowd have been...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
When Newt Gingrich maligned our "truly stupid" child labor laws and suggested that children 14 and under be put to work cleaning their schools, he sparked the outrage the former House speaker relishes. Less attention was paid to the other casualty of his proposition:...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Today thousands of unemployed people and others came to D.C. to tell Congress and "K Street" that they need jobs not cuts; that we should tax the rich, and that unemployment benefits must be extended before they run out at the end of the year. I am in Washington to...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 6, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
This morning Barack Obama channeled one of American history's truly transformative figures by visiting the tiny Kansas town where Teddy Roosevelt gave his "New Nationalism" speech over a century ago. It was refreshing to see the President invoke his predecessor, who...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 24, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain's comment a couple of weeks ago that "I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way" didn't cause much of a national stir when he made it. Why would it, when a mixed-race African American is...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 5, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
At the Take Back The American Dream conference session titled “Make Work Pay: Why Empowering Workers & Holding CEO’s Accountable is Vital to Economic Growth” Christine Owens of the Nationsal Employment Law Project described to the audience how wages are declining....
