by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
The Senate is expected to vote today on whether to proceed to final debate on a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. It's a key political vote that separates who stands with working people and who doesn't. But, more importantly, it's a vote that...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
Today at noon ET, the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10, and then index it to inflation. Actually, that's not quite right. The vote would allow the Senate to begin debate on the minimum wage bill. And if media reports are...
by Richard Long | Apr 29, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
As the National Restaurant Association prepared for its annual lobbying days inside the Capitol this week, more than a thousand grassroots activists went to the Capitol on Monday to demand that the voice of workers and their demand for a fairer economy that works for...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play — at our expense. And big oil giants like ExxonMobil have been outraging Americans for years. But plenty of other corporate giants that inflate our inequality...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 8, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
[fve]http://youtu.be/iAAJKKZOqDk[/fve] So what if big-box retailer Costco already pays its workers well above the minimum wage, the rhetoric from the crowd opposing a minimum wage increase goes. Costco is a special case, they say, with a business model and sales...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 27, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
[fve]http://youtu.be/MocqsPYblM8[/fve] Leo Hindery, who runs the private equity firm Intermedia Partners, is blunt in his criticism of two corporations – McDonald's and Walmart – that are leading the effort to block an increase in the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an...