Fight For $15 Update: When Truman Doubled Minimum Wage
Economists and analysts tell Bloomberg News that wage increases in service and retail sectors are helping retailers by putting “more money in the pockets of some of their biggest customers: their own employees.”
Portland to Be Home to World’s First Vegan Supermarket Chain
Veganz is the world's first all-vegan supermarket chain. By the end of 2016 they will have 14 stores open around the world.
NAACP Teams With Low-Income Children’s Program to Help Parents Too
The partnership is aimed at providing families with the economic opportunities they otherwise aren't afforded.
Here’s How Cuts to Planned Parenthood are Impacting Poor Women
A new study shows that Medicaid-covered births are up and contraceptive claims are down.
NBA Superstar Ray Allen to Open Organic Fast-Food Restaurant
Ray Allen and his wife, Shannon Allen, are launching an organic fast-food restaurant in Miami called Grown.
A New Era of Global Protest Begins
In line with the steady rise in social unrest over the past decade, it’s likely that we will witness an unprecedented escalation in large-scale citizen protests across the globe in 2016 and beyond.
New Bill Reintroduces the DARK Act
A new bill presented in the Senate is being called the new Denying Americans the Right to Know, or DARK Act. Are the majority Americans being ignored?
Monsanto Feels the Bern as Sanders Turns Focus to GMO Labeling
U.S. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has turned his focus to supporting GMO labeling and attacking Monsanto’s interests this week after Hillary Clinton’s love of GMOs was recently confirmed by the Gates Foundation.
Protests Spark Chaos at Trump Rallies in US
Trump has even defended John McGraw who punched a black demonstrator in North Carolina last week, saying, “He deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him.”
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Latest Effort to Block Air Pollution Rule
Twenty states tried to derail the Obama administration’s mercury regulation.