Tag: Fight for $15
The Morality of a $15 Minimum
A national movement is growing for a $15 an hour minimum wage rase—workers at fast-food and big-box retail establishments are striking for a raise. So when will corporate America start moving toward this goal?
Fight for $15: Tens of Thousands Rally as Labor, Civil Rights...
In the largest action to date to demand a $15-an-hour minimum wage, thousands of low-wage workers took to cities nationwide to fight for a living wage. The rally was a joining of Civil Rights and social justice movements forces.
Not Lovin’ It
McDonald's new ad campaign is trying to tap into people’s emotions linking their positive feelings of love with the Golden Arches. Maybe it would be better served to ask the workers about the “love” they’re getting from McDonald’s.
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Unfettered and unaccountable: How Trump is building a violent, shadowy federal police force
And even when its investigations didn’t fix problems, the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties provided an accounting of allegations and a measure of transparency for Congress and the public.
The lab mouse paradox: Why science still depends on animals who don’t represent us
Despite significant advances in human-based research, millions of mice and rats are still used in U.S. laboratories each year—at immense ethical and scientific cost.
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
The quandary of contraries in human nature – half problem-solving genius, half destroyer of...
If we do not find common ground, then the ground of being on which we depend will dissolve.
Victims without victimizers
But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people?