Food Waste Worsens Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Sep 14, 2013 The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says food wastage across the world -- totaling 1.3 billion tonnes of food annually -- is the largest source of global greenhouse gas emissions after China and the USA. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

New Life for Labor

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 2, 2013 Could this Labor Day mark the comeback of movements for workers' rights and a turn toward innovation and a new militancy on behalf of wage earners? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Workers Pay

Nick Anderson / Truthdig Aug 31, 2013 Dig deeper

Burglar King

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Aug 30, 2013 Dig deeper

Fast Food Workers Continue Fight Against Poverty Wages

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 29, 2013 Adults working full time at McDonald's are "paid less per hour in real terms than the lowest paid US workers were half a century ago" when hundreds of thousands of people flooded into Washington, D.C., for the historic march for freedom and jobs for black Americans, The Guardian reports Thursday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fast Food Workers Super Size Their Walkout

BLANK Aug 20, 2013 Fast food workers demanding a livable wage of $15 an hour are pushing for a nationwide walkout Aug. 29, leading, fittingly enough, into Labor Day weekend. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Minimum Wage

Milt Priggee, Cagle Cartoons, www.miltpriggee.com Aug 19, 2013 Dig deeper

Lovin’ It

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Aug 11, 2013 Dig deeper

Raising Minimum Wage Increases Quality of Life, Not Unemployment

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2013 Though many economists would have you that believe raising the minimum wage would result in higher unemployment rates, they are mistaken. Statistical analyses of a significant sampling of studies have shown no evidence that unemployment rates are affected by wage increases. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

iKnife: The Surgical Tool That Detects Cancer

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2013 A new device takes seconds to find tumors during an operation; Attorney General Eric Holder gives a speech that questions vigilantism in the wake of the Zimmerman trial and rebukes U.S. drone policy in the process; meanwhile, most Americans believe political parties are corrupt. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

What Happens in Egypt Doesn’t Stay in Egypt

Staff / Truthdig Jul 19, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole says Americans should be very concerned about revolution in the Mideast; George Zimmerman goes free; The Advocate's "Black, Gay, American" issue; and alt-labor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A 7.5 Percent Jobless Rate Means the McRecovery Continues

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 3, 2013 The U.S. economy appears to have added just enough jobs in April to keep pace with population growth, and the new positions are low wage and mostly nonunion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )