America’s Slave Empire

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 22, 2015 The only way brutality and economic exploitation in prisons can be halted is by attacking the system of neoslavery that defines our prison system. Alabama prisoners are leading a call for work stoppages in an effort to break the U.S. system of mass incarceration. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Apr 6, 2015 The companies that cruelly exploit prisoners will get the message only if it is delivered in the form of a sustained, nationwide economic action. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How Google Met the CIA, Plus Other Scary Stories From ‘They Know Everything About You’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 6, 2015 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer connects the dots on surveillance, the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership could break the Internet, a Super Bowl commercial embarrasses minimum-wage workers and the Republican candidates for president embarrass themselves. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Tim Cook, Midterms, and Fast-Food Wages in Denmark

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 1, 2014 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists agree that Apple CEO Tim Cook's (at right) announcement that he's gay is historic. Meanwhile, the "war on women" isn't playing in the midterm elections and fast food workers in Denmark are making about $20 per hour. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Shrinking the Global Income Gap

Thor Benson / Truthdig Oct 2, 2014 A new study from Harvard Business School suggests that people all across the world, from very divergent backgrounds and ideologies, want the income gap to become smaller -- and also that it's actually bigger than they realized. A new study from Harvard Business School suggests that people all across the world, from very divergent backgrounds and ideologies, want the income gap to become smaller—and also that it's actually bigger than they realized. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Ask the Pizza Hut Guy

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Poverty Wages

Clay Bennett / Truthdig Sep 6, 2014 Dig deeper

Fast Food Worker Revolt

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons May 18, 2014 Dig deeper

New York AG Forces McDonald’s Franchise Owner to Pay Up for Violating Wage Laws

Staff / Truthdig Mar 19, 2014 Richard Cisneros, owner of seven McDonald's franchises in Manhattan, is now obliged to pay nearly $500,000 to workers at his fast-food restaurants. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McDonald’s

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McDonald’s Advises Workers How Much to Tip Their Pool Boys and Au Pairs

BLANK Dec 6, 2013 McDonald's once again displayed its utter ignorance of the lives of its low-wage workers in an online advice column recommending seasonal tipping rates for luxury services And on the same day those workers joined a nationwide walkout protesting poverty wages Yes, Ronald McDonald is a clown, but still . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Trans Fats: Neither Food Nor Stuff

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2013 In Stephen Colbert's recent "Thought for Food" segment, the comedian rails at the food-stapo, aka the FDA, for proposing a ban on trans fats. But Colbert's not the only one upset about the potential loss of this extremely harmful ingredient -- Fox News and The Heritage Foundation are "standing up for trans fats" too. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )