Tag: wage inequality
The rent crisis: Half of US renters face unprecedented housing affordability...
The study reveals a staggering 50 percent of U.S. renters were dedicating more than 30 percent of their income to cover rent and utilities.
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.
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The truth about kratom and its safety problems
"Depending on the amount of active ingredient in the product…taking kratom can be harmful," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned people not to use kratom because of possible harm it can cause.
Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown
Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.
Only the ugliest American alone pulverizes domestic and overseas stability, the rarest of doomed...
As long as politics remains tawdry, brain-numbing entertainment, infected by hateful racist bugs, today’s already darkened age will grow darker before en-light-enment may return.
New filing alleges ICE leaders target protesters for arrest over speech in Chicago
Court documents in the Operation Midway Blitz case describe orders to arrest people for “hyperbolic comments,” claims that all protesters are “violent rioters,” and use of tear gas before any alleged assault, as a judge weighs limits on federal force.
USDA warning to grocers deepens SNAP crisis as Trump defies court orders
As federal judges order the administration to pay out frozen food benefits, the USDA warns grocery stores not to offer discounts to millions of hungry Americans caught in the shutdown, citing the “Equal Treatment Rule.”