Tag: jobs

The average hourly wage in manufacturing rose just 1.7 percent in the last year.

These workers play vital roles in the U.S. economy, erecting American buildings, picking American apples and grapes, and taking care of American babies. Oh, and paying American taxes.

For the CEOs, soothing talk about a surging economy is a lot easier than actually investing in the country that made them rich.

Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.

The overwhelming preponderance of dead-end box store jobs and part-time positions offering little or no benefits is what we have become in this so-called modern era.

Robots are not our enemy – the corporate bosses, bankers and BSers who own robots are the ones doing this to us.

How soon before we have a bot-plot, with a cabal of rogue robots conspiring to overthrow an unsuspecting CEO and seize control of a corporation?

Sanders is urging the president to issue an executive order preventing federal contractors from sending jobs overseas for cheaper labor.

Here's a round up from the "While He Was Tweeting" series.

The evidence on hourly wage differences leads us to conclude that casual workers are not being adequately compensated for the lack of paid leave, or for other forms of insecurity they face.