by Richard Eskow | Dec 1, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Something is happening. It's beginning to look as if the fight for a livable minimum wage might – just might – alter our political future. Makes sense, when you think about it. The minimum wage struggle is occurring at the intersection of powerful forces. It's taking...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 28, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
At the first Thanksgiving, there was no expression of the sentiment: “I built this feast by myself.” Native Americans sat side by side with pilgrims – religious leader by huntsman, chief by planter. They shared the bounty they’d all worked to create. This Thanksgiving...
by Jeff Faux | Nov 26, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Financial Reform, Minimum Wage
The deeper you are in the inner sanctums of power, the slower you are to get disturbing news from the rest of the world. So, I suppose it should be no surprise that it has taken so long for a prominent member of the American policy elite to suggest openly to his...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 25, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
Show this one at Thanksgiving!! [fve]http://youtu.be/uUAWLqQHeRw[/fve] See What's Walmart's Business Secret? at the AFL-CIO blog. The six Walton heirs own about 50% of the company and have a combined wealth of $142 billion. This means they have more wealth than 42% of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 25, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Nancy Salgado has been working at McDonald's in Chicago for 10 years, and for that whole time she has been working at Illinois' minimum wage, now $8.25 an hour. As a mother with two young children, that puts her below the poverty line of $19,530. McDonald's says it...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 24, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Nancy Salgado has been working at McDonald's in Chicago for 10 years, and for that whole time she has been working at Illinois' minimum wage, now $8.25 an hour. As a mother with two young children, that puts her below the poverty line of $19,530. McDonald's says it...