by Michael Winship | Sep 10, 2013 | Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
In Los Angeles, Labor Redefines Itself (via Moyers & Company) “It’s time to turn America right side up!” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka exhorted those in attendance at the labor alliance’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles on Monday. Time, he said in his keynote...
by Digby | Sep 8, 2013 | Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
Not that this is exactly news, but Michael Bloomberg is a jerk. A very wealthy jerk. "This city is not two groups, and if it is, it's one group paying for services for the other." Yeah, well these rich assholes wouldn't have any of the "services" that helped them to...
by Joshua Holland | Sep 6, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back (via Moyers & Company) After decades of seeing their incomes shrink, those at the bottom of the economic ladder are starting to band together and fight back — and it’s...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 28, 2013 | Progressive Vision, The Unfinished March
This is what a missed opportunity looks like: When President Obama finished his speech at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday afternoon at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, the crowd that lined the Reflecting Pool applauded briefly,...
