Tag: middle class
How worker solidarity protects what’s left of the middle class
Union contracts provide decent wages and benefits along with safe working conditions, retirement security and a means for workers to stand up for themselves.
How upskilling America will rebuild the middle class
Providing workers with a pathway for that upskilling will be essential to meeting the nation’s infrastructure needs.
After Trump: Can the GOP sell itself as the party of...
"The future of the [Republican] party is based on a multiethnic, multiracial working class coalition." and that, “...the free market exists to serve our people. Our people don’t exist to serve the free market.”
A plaintive plea from America’s rich: Let’s change the subject!
Other candidates, most notably Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, begrudge plenty and have specific proposals for changing the rules that let wealth keep concentrating.
Why unions matter to you
It all comes down to the balance of power between business and workers.
The inequality to be suffered by our children
Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.
A 2 percent financial wealth tax would provide a $12,000 annual...
It's not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and artistic pursuits for American households with an...
America is Disneyland
America is being eaten alive by corporate greed; and Disneyland has been taken over by Scrooge.
What’s killing America’s middle class?
Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.
Three insidious ways ‘overtaxed’ corporations are cheating America
The tax money withheld by the big corporations is desperately needed to restore living-wage opportunities to millions of workers.
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4 ways the media does a disservice to sexual assault survivors
People who work in the media have a tremendous responsibility to report the facts without letting unnecessary information taint them.
Anaheim mayor resigns amid FBI corruption investigation
“I hope that the people of Anaheim and our media continue to pursue the question of whether Harry Sidhu was acting alone."
Oil giant consultant resigns, citing operations beyond ‘limits of our planetary systems’
"I can no longer work for a company that ignores all the alarms and dismisses the risks of climate change and ecological collapse."
Lift the Supreme Court’s veil of secrecy
These nine individuals make decisions that affect every American. Why should they get to do it secretly?
FDA denies petitions to ban phthlates in food packaging
"It’s outrageous that FDA decided chemicals banned from children’s toys should remain in the food we eat. Families deserve better from FDA.”