Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman discussed the minimum wage and said that Mehmet Oz doesn't care about Pennsylvanians who are…
The war is formalized in legal proceedings as the people are fighting back against Republican governors who prematurely eliminated the…
Over the last few decades, wage growth has stagnated in the country. Democrats have been pushing to change that. Joe…
Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal has certainly sparked debates not just about basic questions of fairness, of morality, but also…
As talk of a looming recession increases in volume, looking back to the Great Recession in 2008 to assess the…
North Carolina Republican legislators surprised critics when they passed a $15-per-hour "living wage" for 10,000 state workers. The increase will…
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is hanging tough in the face of an onslaught of Republican dark money in Missouri, but…
As the debate over the minimum wage continues, we must consider the purchasing power necessary to afford the basics of…
Sen. Bernie Sanders along with House and Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that will give Democrats a powerful rallying…
“It's the first time a state nullified local wage ordinances already in effect and forced [local] jurisdictions to [immediately] reduce…
Even though Conway didn't mean to call for higher wages, her accidental slip-up was likely the smartest thing she's ever…
His uncertainty about taking the job is evidence that progressive opposition has been loud and effective.
Trump’s choices are unqualified, but they were chosen for their desire to eradicate federal agencies, not their level of competence…
Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It…
Is there a minimum wage of whiteness? When will those whites, of all classes...cease to feel a benefit of racism…
"It hasn’t been called for yet. Nobody’s done it," Trump said about an idea he called for last December.
Hillary Clinton put a whooping on Donald Trump after Trump suggested that there should be no minimum wage.
Bernie Sanders responded to the moves by California and New York to raise their minimum wages to $15/hour by promising…
The percentage of middle-class households dropped in every state in the Union between 2000 and 2013, along with median income
Four Papa John's Franchisees in New York City have agreed to a 500,000 dollar settlement to pay back 250 employees…
The Obama White House this week took steps to force communities to halt the "cruel, inhumane, and degrading" treatment of…
The economy is growing for the extremely wealthy, but there were 3 million more children living in extreme poverty in…
The health of an economy should correlate directly to the health of the people living within it, not to their…
Trump's plan to help U.S. automakers sounds an awful lot like Mitt Romney's underhanded tactics at Bain Capital
It is likely that Walker's idea that poverty wages are living wages came directly from the Kochs, who see American…
Bush, like every Republican, ignores the truth about American labor and his pathetic attempt to walk back his assault on…
The U.S. government should only award federal contracts to companies that pay American workers a living wage.
If American taxpayers realized their largesse was going to those who need it least, highly-profitable corporations, they would likely put…
In the midst of a Senate budget vote-a-rama that Republicans are filling with anti-Obamacare and economy killing votes, Senator Bernie…
Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner's approval rating is just 36.5 percent, according to a Paul Simon Public Policy Institute poll.
The President launched an initiative last week to train 500,000 Americans for high-paying jobs in high-technology services.
Instead of changing course and helping the majority of the population, Republicans still propose heaping wealth on the rich and…
Of course, nothing helps families make ends meet like higher wages. That's why this Congress still needs to pass a…
"If you show up at churches and at minority communities it shows you care much more broadly. And that's something…
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be…
While the Labor Department's rule change was meant to protect worker's rights, the Judge protected Home Care Associates, the International…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics unveiled the latest jobs report Friday and the results blew out all expectations as the…
Coupled with inhumane austerity cuts, the GOP is getting precisely what they apparently live for; more despair and destitution among…
In Republican vernacular, returning to the "old ways" is "taking our country back;" but back to what? If the subject…
Chris Christie refused to let Fox News save him from himself as he doubled down on his misinformed opinion that…
There has been relative silence on two new economic reports that put a stake in the economic agenda Republicans are…
A new PPP poll revealed that Republican opposition to the raising the minimum wage is hurting candidates like Mitch McConnell…
During a debate with his Democratic gubernatorial opponent last week, Koch loyalist Scott Walker took the time to insult Wisconsin…
40% of America's wealth is not enough for the Walton's or their investors so Walmart took steps to increase their…
According to the Department of Workforce Development, "there is no reasonable cause to believe that the wages paid to the…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September's employment figures on Friday and it was almost entirely good news. The economy…
According to new research on America's world-leading economic inequality, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that in…
If we were able to ask the average American if s/he would be willing to pay $12.50 annually so that…
If there was a wall of martyrdom, Maria Fernandes' name would surely be chiseled into it. Her avoidable tragedy goes…
Yep, I'd say the best way for Republicans to encourage more black folks to vote their way in November is…
Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce, and large corporations have made a mockery of the idea and purpose Labor Day was…
Republican style class warfare was on full display today as just one Senate Republican millionaire broke with his party to…
President Obama tore into Senate Republicans for blocking a bill that would raise the minimum wage, while painting a picture…
President Obama is turning the tables on Republicans by using one of their favorite tactics to argue for increasing the…
For Speaker of the House John Boehner, it is the prospect of the government attempting to improve the economic situation…
President Obama tells the people to ask their representatives why Congress won't raise the minimum wage for everyone, after he…
President Obama vowed during his State of the Union address to take to pen and phone to do what he…
Why do Kentucky women hold Mitch McConnell in such contempt? His favorables with them are a negative 26%, and Alison…
At the State Of The Union President Obama announced his support for increasing the minimum wage to $10.10/hour by telling…
Just ahead of his State of the Union address where he will push for Congress to raise the minimum wage…
The leading Republican candidate for Governor in Illinois, multi-millionaire Bruce Rauner, thinks the state's minimum wage is too high.
It took Sen. Bernie Sanders less than a minute on MSNBC to completely destroy the Republican arguments against raising the…
For Democrats to retake the House in 2013, they need to embrace key issues that they support and that are…
In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…
If Americans have learned only one thing about the economic recovery, it is that Republicans will make sure the only…
The real tragedy is that as stupid Southern voters do the Kochs' bidding by keeping Republicans in power, at least…
After decades of declining incomes an overwhelming majority of Americans finally realize their government exists to favor the rich, and…
A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the…
Sen. Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC and destroyed every major Republican argument against raising the minimum wage, while calling the…
Despite Republicans' best efforts to sabotage the economy, there were three or four suspiciously unreported pieces of good economic news…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is calling on the American people to stand up and demand that current starvation minimum wage…
Republicans who are wont to claim they speak for all Americans say the people oppose higher wages, but if the…
People should not work full-time for wages that put them below the poverty line, but it is all too common.…
Huckabee complains that it is easy to spend somebody else's money; it is apparently far easier from his perspective to…
Congressional Republicans have vowed to block any bill raising the minimum wage, but a new Gallup poll shows that 76%…
If Americans want to understand just how wrong Republicans are, they should look to California for a model the entire…
Sen. Bernie Sanders is talking about something that few other politicians will mention. Republicans aren't just opposed to the minimum…
Republicans are on a tear to disable the federal government's ability to serve the people much like Republican-controlled states like…
Republicans will spend three weeks promoting the policies that drove 4 out of 5 Americans into unemployment, near or at…
Fast food giant McDonalds teamed with Visa to provide them with a budget plan Republicans celebrated as justification for their…
Charles Koch has joined Republicans pushing to eliminate the nation's minimum wage. He implied that getting rid of minimum wage…
During a hearing on raising the minimum wage, Sen. Bernie Sanders got the ranking Republican on the committee to admit…
The law is another Republican attempt to kill new jobs because without the incentives inherent in the FLSA overtime rule,…
On ABC's This Week, Sen. Jeff Sessions tried to blatantly lie to the American people by claiming that increase in…
A wave of terror is certainly spreading through the Republican Party as President Obama has embraced the politically popular issue…
Do you hear it? I do, it's the shrieks of horror by the House GOP, Boehner and Cantor! How dare…
A study released by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), however, shows that it is big corporations not small businesses…
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