Tag: minimum wage
How Will the Fight for $15 Reckon with Harmful Proposals From...
The Fight for $15’s narrow notion of those interests has upset some and gratified others. But don’t expect it change. The campaign has been winning, after all.
Yelp Employee Fired After Her Open Letter on Livable Wages Goes...
Yelp insists that the firing was not due to the open letter, but Talia Jane says she was told otherwise.
Bernie Is More Generous to Workers Than Hillary
Hillary Clinton believes that $12 an hour minimum wage is sufficient for people living in every area of the United States. Bernie Sanders insists that a livable wage is at least $15 an hour.
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.”
Nickel and Dimed in 2016
It seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can't get above the poverty line. You can't earn a living on the minimum wage.
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?
CEOs Call for Wage Increases for Workers! What’s the Catch?
The powerful peers of the corporate plutocracy are frightened by wealth inequality happening in America. While many are looking to fix it, their concern is not driven by moral outrage at the injustice, but rather by self-interest.
Overtime: Finally, a Break for the Middle Class
There is finally a bit of good news for hard-working Americans—the U.S. Department of Labor just proposed raising the overtime threshold. More than a million workers will soon get a raise.
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Despite twisted hype about “so much winning,” America staggers, the self-inflicted, breakthrough icon of...
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The brave new war machine
How a clique of unhinged techno-optimists is putting humanity at risk.
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