by Dave Johnson | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
With Tuesday marking one year before election day the Fight For $15 movement hit the fast-food industry with walkouts and protests in hundreds of U.S. cities. They hope to get presidential candidates talking about raising the minimum wage. The Fight For $15 movement...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Americans who once earned family-supporting wages working in factories, foundries and mills across this country began destroying themselves at a shocking rate five years after implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). That’s because such deals...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 6, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Even with today's positive job report, we have a long way to go to repair the damage done by the 2008 recession and the slow growth that followed. (Chart by Economic Policy Institute) There was surprisingly positive news in today's Labor Department jobs report, with...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 3, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
If you are concerned about the cost of funding social programs for the poor, then you should support a living wage for workers. That’s the message supporters of the Responsible Business Act are sending employers in Chicago. The bill would charge Cook County businesses...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 29, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
U.S. senators and their staff only have to go to the Senate cafeteria to see what is wrong with the low-wage economy, with the workers who serve their meals earning near-poverty wages paid by the subsidiary of a multinational corporation that has blocked efforts by...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
As Vice President Joe Biden announced his decision last week not to run for President, he talked about dreams denied, possibilities foreclosed. He wasn’t speaking of his own aspirations, though. He conveyed absolutely no bitterness about relinquishing the potential to...
