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By Patrick Cockburn
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The slow bulldozing of government protections has allowed lawmakers to re-examine programs and policies that haven’t been touched for decades.
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues her crusade against big financial institutions and businesses, this time tearing apart an argument by a restaurant owner who testified before a Senate panel Thursday that raising the minimum wage would force businesses like his to fire employees.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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“Raising the minimum wage from the current rate of $7.25 an hour to $9 should be a no-brainer,” the former labor secretary says.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
Walmart is feeling some heat with the rising demand for increasing the stagnant federal minimum wage finally coming from Washington, backed by over 70 percent of the people in polls.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., said they would like to see the minimum wage hiked even higher than what they have proposed, but “We want it to pass through Congress.”
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the White House weighing in on whether cellphones should be locked and Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to raise the minimum wage.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Economist Richard Wolff tells Bill Moyers the argument that a higher minimum wage kills jobs makes no sense.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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As many as 100 million Indians angry about high prices, low pay and poor working conditions walked off their jobs Wednesday as a two-day strike organized by 11 major trade unions closed banks, disrupted major transportation and reportedly saw two deaths, Al-Jazeera reports.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The president’s minimum wage hike isn’t high enough, sweatshop economics, more on jobs, and California manhunts.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The president’s minimum wage hike isn’t high enough, sweatshop economics, more on jobs, and California manhunts.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a congresswoman’s attempt to criminalize public female nipple exposure and “Saturday Night Live” pokes fun at Marco Rubio’s State of the Union response.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 should be a no-brainer. Republicans say it will cause employers to shed jobs, but that’s baloney.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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If the federal minimum wage had kept pace with changes in worker productivity, busboys and baristas would be making at least $21.72 an hour today, according to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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The group, which targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO headquarters Tuesday, wants to see the minimum wage raised from its current $7.25 an hour to $10.50.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Under its current president, the organization has failed to address the mounting threat against labor in the United States from the loss of bargaining rights to the refusal to adjust minimum wage standards to the push against implementing the “card check” union organizing system, Harry Kelber says.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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By Chris Hedges — The corporate state uses debt to keep workers—especially the working poor—frightened and disempowered. Only through a campaign for a minimum wage of at least $11 an hour can Americans begin to regain economic, social and political control.
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
You need to do something authentic that people can relate to—70 percent of the people in polls support an inflation-adjusted minimum wage. So did Rick Santorum and even Mitt Romney, until he waffled during the primaries.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
President Obama should send this open letter to his GOP opponent—pronto!
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By David Sirota — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using his power to undermine a popular proposal to increase the minimum wage.
Posted on May 25, 2012
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to live in a better world. That’s why he vetoed a law that would have raised the minimum wage for a measly few hundred or so working New Yorkers to at least $10 an hour.
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AP / Michael Probst
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Having pulled off the biggest debt restructuring deal ever, Greece is on track for yet another bailout. Meanwhile, the Greek government is also preparing to make yet another round of austerity cuts, which may involve lowering the nation’s minimum wage.
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AP / Mike Groll
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By Chris Hedges — Ralph Nader believes that the call to raise the minimum wage has the potential to divide the Republican Party, which has not been split on any major issue in Congress since Obama took office.
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Heat exhaustion, lightheadedness, dehydration and other problems afflicted employees at Amazon’s warehouses around the United States this summer, where a steady supply of low-paid temporary workers keeps the packing and shipping lines fully staffed. (more)
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Think you have the dirt on inequality in America? Jeffrey Rudolph, a college accounting professor in Montreal, has crafted an extensive quiz stocked full of hard facts and figures from a range of authoritative sources that cuts through the myth and lies thrown up by America’s leading misinformers. (more)
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On today’s list: Speaking more than one language can delay Alzheimer’s, literary tattoos, why they hate us (hint: it’s not our freedom), and Barbie goes geek.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The 2010 election is turning into a class war. The wealthy and the powerful started it. This is a strange development.
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AP / Jeff Gentner
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By Moshe Adler — There is of course no doubt that our public education system is broken. There is also no doubt that wages are too low. But blaming “bad teachers” is not the answer to either.
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California’s outdated technical infrastructure has made 200,000 state employees very, very happy. After an injunction by the governor to cut workers pay to the state’s $7.25 minimum wage, the state controller has successfully argued that such pay docking would be impossible given the state’s outdated payroll computer system.
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Around 200,000 state employees in California will notice an adjustment in their July paychecks—and it won’t be the kind of change they want. According to an order issued Thursday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ... (continued)
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Flickr / Johan Larsson
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Something’s rotten in the Apple empire—a few things, actually. For starters, the technology titan revealed that at least 11 children, who the company claimed were 15 years old, were employed in three Apple-affiliated factories in undisclosed locations. (continued)
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By Marie Cocco — Senate Republicans continue to oppose a minimum-wage hike, despite the fact that the buying power of the working poor hasn’t approved in five decades.
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The business community is divided over minimum-wage legislation making its way through the Senate. While small businesses are celebrating the tax incentives included in the bill, major corporations are frustrated by the Democrats’ requirement that every new tax break be matched by either a tax increase or a closed loophole.
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The first minimum-wage increase in 10 years took a hit in the Senate Wednesday, failing to get the 60 votes necessary to end debate. Republicans have been fighting to include tax cuts for businesses, and will probably succeed unless the Dems can get six more defections.
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By Marie Cocco — Senate Democrats and Republicans have shamelessly joined in a bipartisan effort to pad the well-off at the expense of the working poor.
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American Apparel’s controversial founder has sold the clothing company to an investment firm for $382.5 million. The company made a name for itself by manufacturing guilt-free clothes in downtown Los Angeles, where it pays workers double the minimum wage and offers them healthcare, free meals and English lessons.
Posted on Dec 18, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — This year, voters valued their ability to shoot down draconian abortion laws, to raise the minimum wage and to send an unequivocal message to the warmongers in the White House.
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By Molly Ivins — “DeLay’s professions of Christianity make me sick…. He chose to walk with the powerful and do real harm to the very people Jesus mandated we especially care for.”
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Alessandra Petlin / The New York Times
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Chris Rock on the true meaning of minimum wage: “If we could pay you less, we would.” Check out this NYT Magazine piece on the struggle just to get by. | story
Posted on Jan 16, 2006
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