by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 26, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
[fve]http://youtu.be/UhTyTzvCPMg[/fve] An increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour is especially important for the millions of women who are the backbone of the services sector yet struggle to provide the basics for their families. Plus, it would begin to narrow...
by Sarah Anderson | Mar 13, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Purveyors of Ferraris and high-end Swiss watches keep their fingers crossed toward the end of each calendar year, hoping that the big Wall Street banks will be generous with their annual cash bonuses. New figures show that the bonus bonanza of 2013 didn’t disappoint....
by Joshua Holland | Mar 10, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Conservatives should be on the front line of the battle to raise the minimum wage. Work is supposed to make one independent, but with the inflation-adjusted federal minimum down by a third from its peak, low-wage workers depend on billions of dollars in public...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 6, 2014 | Minimum Wage
The opponents of an increase in the minimum wage say they speak for small business. Here's more proof that they don't. It comes from the organization Small Business Majority, in the form of a poll of 500 randomly selected small-business owners. Among those polled, 57...
by Bill Scher | Mar 5, 2014 | Minimum Wage
If you thought that the hotly contested Congressional Budget Office report, suggesting that a higher minimum wage would reduce the number of jobs, would squelch any chance of raising it, think again. President Obama ratcheted up the pressure today, speaking out in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 28, 2014 | Minimum Wage
In a USA Today poll in January, close to three-quarters of Americans said that they would support an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. But even though a majority of Americans at least want this issue decided by Congress, House Speaker John Boehner won't...