Tag: wage inequality
Sanders hosts ‘CEOs vs. Workers’ town hall to take on ‘extravagant’...
Join Bernie Sanders, along with workers from Amazon, Disney, McDonald’s, American Airlines and Walmart, for a town hall tonight at 7 p.m.
As global 1% seize economy’s gains, ‘unprecedented wage stagnation’ for everyone...
"With workers worldwide being left behind, we need to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the few at the top."
Can anything bring CEO pay back down to Earth?
If we want to reverse soaring income inequality, curbing CEO pay has to be on the agenda.
Thinking beyond Trump: Why we need a federal jobs guarantee
Full employment through a federal job guarantee makes sense – for workers, for the economy, for America.
Striking West Virginia teachers revive a proud labor heritage
After nine days on strike, the teachers won!
160 Americans now control $2 trillion of wealth
These 160 Americans had a combined net worth of $1.7 trillion. In the last year, they have increased their net worth by $312 billion.
Inequality is feeding America
It's time to treat all farm workers with the respect due to the people who really are essential to our food security.
In the last 40 years CEO pay has risen by 937%...
America’s inequality problem continues to be the worst in the industrialized world.
Waging class war in comfort
Do the corporate chiefs now parading into the new Trump administration see the United States as just another enterprise – to fleece?
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Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight
The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail ballot rule
North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.
Interfaith leaders say they were ‘misled’ into attending event with far-right Hindu leader
Mohan Bhagwat’s appearance at Madison Square Garden was the latest in an influence operation conducted by the RSS and its allies in the U.S.
Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More...
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.
Federal judge blocks EPA attempt to strip California’s clean air waivers
The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.