Tag: living wage
Don’t believe corporate America’s ‘labor shortage’ bullshit. This is an unofficial...
What’s really happening is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.
(Burying) ‘The Salt of the Earth’
The main brunt of this empire's tactics is to instill this 'Dog eat Dog' mentality into we working stiffs.
‘This is not sustainable:’ Analysis shows massive gap between CEO and...
Compensation for CEOs is growing at double the pace of ordinary workers'.
Thinking beyond Trump: Why we need a federal jobs guarantee
Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.
Harvard Has Billions, So Why Won’t It Pay Workers a Living...
Striking dining hall employees at the Ivy League school have turned the spotlight on the low salaries of administrative positions nationwide.
“End Modern Slavery!”
Inmates in prison are given opportunities to perform jobs for money in prison, however ,without getting paid anything close to living wages, they are released without the money to find housing and wind up homeless or living in shelters, making them more likely to re-offend.
How Not to Give Employees a Raise
One CEO wants to give his workers a raise, but in doing so, he would like to receive corporate subsidies. Wait, he actually wants us taxpayers to give money to rich corporations so they can pay their employees?
Dishing out Poverty Wages on Capitol Hill
Lawmakers are shafting the underpaid workers who prepare their meals. Wages are less than $11 an hour, well below the very expensive cost of living in the Washington area.
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$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Trump delivers lunch to Beijing
China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
Omar says ICE drawdown ‘not enough’ as thousands of agents remain deployed in Minnesota
After Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal immigration agents would leave Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, civil rights groups, and national coalitions said the move leaves an ongoing occupation intact while killings, constitutional violations, and international human rights complaints remain unresolved.