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Happy New Year: These 14 States Will Raise Their Minimum Wage In 2016
The best way to ensure that the American people don’t live in poverty and end up needing government subsidies just to get by is to guarantee they are paid the living wage that they have earned and deserve. The refusal of corporate America to pay their workers fair wages and make off with disgusting profits…
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Seattle Firm's Profits Double After Raising Minimum Salary To $70,000
In April, Dan Price, CEO of Seattle-based credit card payment firm Gravity Payments announced that he would raise the minimum annual pay for all the company’s employees to $70,000. The announcement put Price at the center of a media firestorm, attracting a wave of inane conservative criticism over the move to give workers a living…
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Hypocrite Paul Ryan: I Deserve Paid Family Leave, But American Workers Don't
Ryan has declared he “cannot and will not give up my family time,” even though he’s spent his whole career making it harder for American workers to spend time with their families.
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Wage Slavery: Average American Must Work 94 Hrs/Week To Make Ends Meet
President Obama and Democrats have been calling on lawmakers to raise the minimum wage for American workers for years. Advocates have long said that the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is not a livable wage for a single person, let alone a family, to survive on. A new study has found that there…
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American Workers Green With Envy As Sweden Implements Six-Hour Workday
The American people work longer and harder than any other industrialized nation, with much less to show for it. The indomitable monolith of corporate profit has infested our economy, teaching people that they are only as valuable as to what they can produce, by how many hours they put in, by how willing they are…
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Bernie Sanders: Let's Invest $1.3 Trillion In Infrastructure To Create 13 Million Jobs
As we all know, implementing public policy is about compromise, and nobody knows that better than presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Yesterday, on Meet the Press, acknowledging the importance of deficit reduction, Sanders said; “So is deficit reduction important? Of course, it is…But so is creating the millions of jobs we desperately need…I want to invest…
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Historic: Bernie Sanders Files Sweeping Labor Bill Eliminating 'Right-To-Work' Laws
There is no denying the United States has an enormous problem with wealth inequality. As one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it is shameful how little income mobility the average American worker actually has. Part of the reason for this, is the roadblocks Republicans have put up to keep hardworking people from unionizing, because…
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Ex-HP Employees Laid Off By Carly Fiorina: You Shipped My Job To China And Made Off With Millions!
Carly Fiorina is running for president, and as CNN points out “it’s hard to run for president when your name is synonymous with massive layoffs.” Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2002 when she insisted, over the objections of the Hewlett and Packard families, to merge with Compaq. The merger was a disaster, and it…
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Criminal Trial Begins For Worker-Killing, Union-Busting, Mass-Polluting Coal CEO
Five years ago, in the worst mining disaster in America since 1970, a fire in the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia left 29 miners dead. The catastrophe ultimately led to the folding of coal giant Massey Energy and the downfall of its dictatorial and egomaniacal chief, Don Blankenship. As Federal investigators build their…
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Tea Party Senator: $7/Hour Is Too Much For You, But $700,000/Year Is Barely Enough For Me
The fight to raise the minimum wage has become a central theme in the political discourse surrounding the upcoming 2016 election, and with good reason. The minimum wage has been stagnant for decades as the cost of living has grown and the wealth concentrated in the top 0.1% of Americans has utterly failed to trickle,…