Tag: subminimum wage
Inside the campaign to abolish the subminimum wage in 25 states...
"This is the only future for the service sector and the economy overall: wages must go up or there will be no future.”
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How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.
Among the GOP’s debt ceiling hostages? Social Security payments for oldest Americans
"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."
The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance
We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.
Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
Supreme Court’s ruling on humane treatment of pigs could catalyze a wave of new...
While the ruling was fractured and reflected complex legal questions, it is a major victory for those working to improve farm animal welfare.