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Industry standards boards are delivering results for workers, employers, and their...

Industry standards boards represent a new participatory model that can improve the lives of workers, address problems faced by employers, and strengthen services in local communities.

If wage growth is driving inflation, why is workers’ share of...

Perhaps some economists can tell a story where rapid wage growth is driving inflation even as the wage share of income is falling, but I’m not that good an economist.

Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 157.8% since 1979

These data are not top-coded, meaning the underlying earnings reported are actual earnings and not “capped” or “top-coded” for confidentiality.

Watch your wallets

The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.

Why wages are going nowhere

The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle.

Iceland becomes first country to fix this gender inequality problem

Iceland is now the only country in the world that has legalized equal pay between the sexes.

In the last 40 years CEO pay has risen by 937%...

America’s inequality problem continues to be the worst in the industrialized world. 

Job Growth Stays Steady While Wage Growth Fails To Take Off

August job growth was fueled by food and drinking places, social assistance, professional and technical services, finance, and health care.

Eric Trump: Wages Stagnated For 15 Years Because Of Syrian Refugees

That’s not how time works. Or economics.

The Wages of Sin

Huge segments of working-class whites—victims paying for the sins of American empire—are desperately seeking to halt change and re-create a mythical past. This is always the last, desperate gasp of a dying culture.

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Bombing Iran is part of the USA’s repetition compulsion for war war war

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

Turning shuttered coal mines into solar plants could add 300 GW of renewable energy...

“The legacy of coal is written into the land, but that legacy does not have to define the future."

New report predicts abandoned coal mines turned into solar farms could add 300 GW...

These solar projects could equal 15 percent of the solar that's already been built globally and help triple renewables before the end of the decade.
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The 10 steps to impeach a president

This isn’t to say Trump couldn’t or won’t be impeached. Only that it’s a long and drawn-out process.

Israel accused of using aid as bait as over 300 Palestinians killed at food...

Palestinians seeking flour and water have become targets, with Israeli forces killing hundreds at so-called humanitarian aid points backed by the U.S.