by Dave Johnson | Aug 2, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
We, the People have fought hard to build and strengthen our democracy. We built up laws and institutions and protections. It has been a particularly hard fight to build a middle class with weekends off, good wages, worker protections and some degree of protection of...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
"Everyone knows Americans are lazy, shiftless, always looking for a way to shirk their responsibilities. People don't want to work so we have to make them work. And good dose of humiliation is good for the soul. If you let them have any dignity they might get uppity."...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 4, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
July 4, 1776, Independence Day celebrates our fight to cast off colonial rule by a wealthy elite who were keeping the benefits of our labors for themselves. We fought this system and we won our independence. In the years since We, the People have built up solid public...
by Terrance Heath | May 28, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
The change agenda at America's Future NOW! REGISTER NOW for AFN 2010 The deficit fear mongers are right that America faces a deficit that threatens to cripple our economy and foreclose on the futures of millions of Americans. They just have the wrong deficit. That's...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 21, 2009 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
They are popping the bubbly on Wall Street. Million-dollar bonuses, the Dow at 10,000, the casino is open again. Forget President Obama, who says we can't go back to an economy where finance pockets 40 percent of the profits. We're already headed there. The...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 25, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
My union, the United Steelworkers (USW), and three paper manufacturers will have free traders and editorial boards across the nation sputtering, spitting and name calling again this week. They started labeling us “protectionist” last week when President Obama made...
