Tag: wage inequality
Busting the ‘paid what you’re worth’ myth
It is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people while millions of Americans struggle to get by.
Median pay of top US CEOs jumped to record $22.3 million...
Analysis has shown companies have used inflation as an excuse to unnecessarily raise prices and have pocketed the increased profits.
From France, an unexpected call for a ceiling on CEO pay
Our modern societies, top French politicos fear, just might ‘explode’ without one.
The rise of the centibillionaires!
If you think wealth and power are too concentrated in the hands of a privileged few now, just imagine what a few more years of trickle-down nonsense will bring.
‘Please help us’: Essential, low-wage workers share why they need reconciliation...
"We are literally starving. It's time for Congress to act."
The eviction crisis is a race and gender wage gap issue
There is a direct correlation between this racial, gendered wage gap and evictions.
There’s no ‘labor shortage.’ there’s a wage shortage.
Congress ought to be listening to actual workers explain why they’re not rushing back to the jobs being offered by restaurant chains and such.
Sanders ‘confident’ $15 minimum wage possible through Senate reconciliation
"I'm confident that the parliamentarian will advise next week that we can raise the minimum wage through the reconciliation process."
6 simple reasons we should raise the minimum wage right now
The federal minimum wage—just $7.25 an hour—hasn’t been increased in more than a decade.
Victory for workers: Connecticut passes legislation raising state’s minimum wage to...
Connecticut now joins New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland by passing a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023.
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House bill would let Marco Rubio strip passports over political speech
Provision would let the Secretary of State deny or revoke passports over alleged “material support” as critics warn of thought policing and unchecked authority.
Tlaib and Sanders push bill to tax excessive CEO pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib unveiled legislation that would impose higher taxes on corporations paying executives more than 50 times their workers, citing billion-dollar gaps at firms like Walmart, Starbucks, and Tesla.
Free speech under siege as Trump FCC forces cancellation of Kimmel
ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s show after threats from Trump’s FCC, raising alarms about corporate capitulation, censorship, and the systematic erosion of First Amendment protections.
Brainwashed nation part I: Assault and battery upon the American brain
An ongoing visitation on the issue of propaganda in the current political environment.
How the rich and their right-wing cronies plot to break working people
They’re plotting to hijack democracy and put working people under the feet of CEOs, the ultra-wealthy, and other Republican fanatics.